What a wonderful companion for the new plant owner! I loved how straight-forward and simply the information was introduced - it was easy to follow and less like a textbook.
I especially liked how it explained some of the more popular houseplants of today and which rooms in the house would suit their growth the best.

A quick, fun read that would make an excellent gift for the new homeowner or college student.

A must for a plant lover and a wanna be lover.
This book covers every type of houseplant explanations. That are easy to understand. The author tells you what rooms are appropriate for every plant. And lets you know how you can make your plant thrive!
Its a great resource for all homeowner to have.
Successful planting and plants.

A lovely little book with absolutely delightful illustrations. Is this a particularly useful guide if you already have plants and want deeper info? Nope. But if you're starting your plant journey, have a notoriously black thumb, just love the way succulents look for décor but don't want to get yourself in trouble... this is the book! A wonderful housewarming gift.

This is such a fantastic informative book. I am a fairly new plant novice and I learned so much. I appreciated learning where the best places to put specific plants. Highly recommend!

The anesthetics of this book are also quite beautiful. I will definitely be buying a copy of this book for gifts for friends. This would make a fantastic house warming gift.

Thank you to the publisher for an advanced ecopy in exchange for honest feedback.

This copy was kindly provided to me by Netgalley and the publisher for review: all opinions are my own. '

Like I needed another excuse to buy a houseplant but this book gave it. Healthier mind, healthier environment, healthier happier being. And its all true, I started my houseplant life way before it became trendy, looking for the air purifiers to keep my life a little healthier; as a cancer survivor, this idea of removing harmful from my personal environment was awesome. I feel calmed staring at my plant (Monstera) when I'm going through a yoga sequence, they are a great grounding source during meditation. NASA approved plants and the plants of steel are still the ones I gravitate towards because they are so forgiving to my plant mom learning.

Helpful and informative, Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom was a fresh and fun way to explore houseplants and just how to keep them alive. To recognize that while a plant might be cool and uber trendy, maybe you don't have the right amount of light to grow.

A book beautiful and chat worthy enough to be a coffee table book, but also totally worth reading!!

I was drawn to this book because of the title. As a new plant enthusiast (particularly succulents) I was excited to learn as much as possible. Unfortunately, I found this book hugely disappointing. The information given felt very repetitive and basic. I’d prefer actual photos of plants to help identify what to buy or ones I might already have instead of cutesy drawings that are no help at all. Lastly, maybe I missed it somewhere or it’s supposed to be a cutesy joke, but why can’t I put a cactus in the bathroom? I don’t get it.

Thanks you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom is a beginner's guide to choosing and keeping houseplants written by Emily L. Hay Hinsdale. Due out 13th April 2021 from Simon & Schuster on their Tiller Press imprint, it's 208 pages and will be available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats.

This is a well written tutorial guide with culture tips for plants in a very easy-to-understand format. The first section introduces the plants and very basic info on how to keep plants alive. The second (larger) section is a room-by-room guide to choosing plants for specific conditions and includes light, heat, humidity and other conditions. The information is -very- basic and aimed at beginners.

The illustrations by Loni Harris are simple, very pretty, and accentuate the text well. There are no photos in this collection. Side notes or special info is provided in highlighted text boxes. In general botanical names (Latin nomenclature) are *not* used which seems to have been a conscious choice to make the text more accessible for beginners. Most of the Latin names can be found in the index with links to the relevant info in the main text.

This would be a good selection for library or classroom acquisition, gifting (perhaps to a young adult recently moved into their first apartment?) or for beginning indoor gardeners who want to get some suggestions for styling with plants.

Three and a half stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

The book covers the reasons for having plants, types of plants, and care specific to some plant types (including repotting information). There are illustrations rather than photos, but they are very well done. The bulk of the book is chapters on each type of room, including questions or discussion on what might be the best types of plants to put in that space. The book goes into a good amount of depth with the information, but it is presented in a way that is accessible and easily understood.

This is a cute little book for beginning plant owners that walks you through the needs of various types of houseplants and what plants are well suited for different areas of the house. It doesn't cover a lot of plants and there are no photos. There are fun black and white illustrations and some of the plants mentioned have drawings of them, but not all. I'm not really sure how useful any plant book can be without illustrations but it does have some good basic info and has a fun, conversational writing style.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book via NetGalley.

Fun facts and practical advice! Perfect for the plant parent that picked up so many new friends over quarantine and needs help maintaining them and styling their home. I loved the plant profiles and the room by room suggestions. The writing style was fun and conversational, like your best friend was offering you plant advice. A pleasure to read and something I will definitely be coming back to!

I was drawn to this book for the fun title! I love houseplants and am always looking to up my game, so I was hoping to learn a lot about fine tuning my plant care. And while I did learn a few things, this is definitely a book for beginners. I consider myself an intermediate plant owner so the majority of this content wasn't new to me.

I liked how the author went room by room through a home and gave tips for how each plant could thrive or decline there. I worked in a flower shop for a while and the biggest thing I learned there was that a plant will grow differently in different home and even different spots in the same home. It was nice to see this reiterated in such specific ways.

I also liked the author's casual tone. Her writing is straight forward and easy to understand. I wish she had included photos of the plants she talks about.

It's important to add that the formatting of my digital ARC was poor. The text was frequently broken up and interrupted with blank spaces and miscellaneous test. The illustrations showed up in chunks that were spread across several pages. I realize this will all be corrected for publication, yet it certainly affected my reading experience.

Never Put A Cactus in the Bathroom, by Emily L. Hay Hinsdale is a nice starter book on plant care. I like the idea of the book and that it was trying to teach about the basics of plant care and the appropriate places to place different plants based on their needs with regards to light and watering.
I hope that the final copy will be in color. The illustrations were very nice.
A good book for the beginner looking for where to start with house plants.

Thank you to NetGalley and Tiller Press for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review.

Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom details helpful tips, habits, and facts surrounding plants.

This was the book I was looking for!! As a newbie to the plant mom circle, I quickly discovered I needed help beyond the basic Google search for plant care. This book broke down simple and easy to understand plant care rituals I'm excited to apply to my own growing plant collection.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have killed more than a few succulents with my love (my love primarily comes in the form of over-watering). I've been pretty successful with my aloes, jades, hoya, and Easter cactus, but I'm ready to dive deeper into the world of houseplants and hopefully stop killing them. This book is adorable. The illustrations are so cute, and it's full of great advice. I feel like I have more information about how to help my plants thrive and learned how to maybe stop killing my succulents.

This book describes which part of your household is best for each plant. How do you water them? Can you eat plants? What can you do when you see that your plant is dying or not doing well? All of this and more in this lovely book. Ever really wanted a plant but didn't know how to take care of it? This book will explain every little thing that you need to know in order to make it grow. The illustrations are cute!! It makes the book ever more wanting to be read. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about plants and how to have them in their home.

If you are a beginner indoor gardener, or a person who has tried to keep plants alive inside with no success, this book is for you. I have been gardening indoors for a few years now and have found a lot of the tips in the book helpful. I wish I had this book back when I was just starting out with plants. I still have not graduated from the easy to keep alive plants, but after reading this book, it seems like this might be the right plants for me after all. I don’t have a lot of time to think about plants so keeping something that needs a lot of constant babysitting is just not for me. But this book will walk you through the care and maintenance of various types of plants and you can decide what you want/can to commit to.

This book walks you through “understanding the quality of daylight in your home”, how to “properly pot and display any plant”, how to care for and recognize sick plants, and how to decide which plant is best for you and your life circumstances. The book even walks you though how to identify a safe plant for kids and animals. Then the last half of the book goes through each room of the house and gives recommendations for how to display your plants in each room and what plants work best for each room.

The way this book is written makes it easy to read. It’s full of down to earth tips and humor and makes reading about plants fun. And you will learn about the plants’ needs of light, soil, and water.

Overall, a fun book about plants. If you are a want-a-be indoor gardener, you should check out this book. If you have had issues keeping plants alive indoors, you should check out this book.

Thank you to the author, illustrator, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for honest feedback. I love houseplants, so this is right up my alley. I think this is a perfect primer for someone who wants to get into taking care of plants. It has some of the most accessible and basic plants, tips for how to maintain and grow them (as well as DON'Ts with the DO's) and is written in a modern, conversational tone. Its illustrations and font choices suggest that this is geared toward a younger audience, probably 18-30, but it's really cute and of course enjoyable for anyone. It's also better for someone who doesn't have much experience with houseplants, or else the experienced gardener or green thumb may not gain anything other than a cute book! Hope the illustrations are in color, which I am sure they probably are. Cool book.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book was around 3.5 stars for me.

The chapter headings are cute, but I had trouble reading some of the curly fonts in a digital format which made it a less enjoyable read.

The information in the book is helpful though! There's tips and information throughout the book on raising various houseplants. There's a guide for what is considered an easy plant and what plants require more attention. There's also jokes throughout the book. I was hoping for more pictures, but there is a lot of info about how different plants grow.

The book is formatted to talk about which plants typically thrive in which rooms best. It's a helpful guide for new and old plant collectors alike.

A great primer on how to care for houseplants. This covers all the basics, with some additional advanced tips as well. I loved the artwork throughout, as well as the humor the author injects!

Thank you to Netgalley and Tiller Press for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Ok, so a few weeks before I received this book the one and only plant I have been able to keep alive got knocked over and destroyed.  It was an adorable Jade plant and I'd had it for 5 years.  Every other plant I purchased for my home, I somehow ended up killing it, and I really didn't understand why.  Well let me tell you, this is the book for me. 

This book provided an approachable way to understand plant care.  It gives examples of hard to kill plants, where they should go in your house and how to care for them.  It also goes one step further and discusses how the different environment in your house can support different plants.  This book makes me feel like I might actually be able to keep alive the next plant I buy.