How Not to Kill Your Houseplant

Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

by Veronica Peerless

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Pub Date Aug 15 2017 | Archive Date Dec 19 2017

DK

Home & Garden | Nonfiction (Adult)

Description

You had one job: watering your new plant. But it's been a week and it's already dying.

Fear not! This helpful guide is here to show you how to rescue your plants. Follow the survival tips outlined in this book and you’ll be on your way to having your home brimming with green life.

It’s absolutely possible not to assassinate your houseplant – all you need is this book! From identifying exactly what's in the pot to helping it flourish and grow, this is your guide to creating an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants.

With over 50 different types of popular houseplants, this book summarizes what type of care your plants do (or don't) need. Find out which types of plants will thrive in your living space. You’ll also discover how to keep a cactus alive, where to hang air plants, and how to repot succulents. Understand how much light, water, heat, and humidity your plant needs. Whatever your horticulture woes, this book will explain and fix it.

Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, and dried leaves – learn to spot the danger signs and how to take the proper action to rescue your sick plant. Packed with helpful tips, pictures, and information panels, How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will equip you with the skills necessary to raise a healthy plant.

Give Your Plants a Chance!

If you’re horticulturally challenged and can’t keep a house plant alive to save your life, then this book is for you! This practical guide to raising indoor plants equips you with the know-how you need to care for your plants.

Inside the pages of this comprehensive gardening book from, you’ll discover:

   ⃦ Tips on watering and feeding plants.
   ⃦ Advice on how to choose the perfect house plants for your unique space and needs.
   ⃦ Helpful survival tips and simple ways not to kill your plants.
   ⃦ Everything you need to know about lighting for house plants, from natural to artificial lighting sources.
   ⃦ Learn to spot the danger signs in unhealthy indoor plants and the effective techniques on how to rescue them.

Available Editions

EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781465463302
PRICE	$14.99 (USD)
PAGES	144

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Andrea j, Reviewer

As with every DK book I've read, this is perfectly presented: brief yet concise, easy to navigate, with plenty of pictures and a beautiful and very graphic presentation. As a reference for house plant care, this is exactly what you need.

The book has an introduction on general purchase, care, potting, diseases, and pests. The rest of the book has specific care for the most common houseplants - from african violets to christmas cactus. Each page is graphical in nature: photographs of the actual plants make them easy to identify as well as follow care tips. The book is friendly, not overly wordy, and gets to the point so you don't waste your time.

Each of the individual plan sections include: location, light, watering/feeding, care, bugs/diseases it is prone to, and signs there is a problem and how to fix it. These are specific to that plant, so they may include anything from leaves turning color to buds dropping. All of the tips are color coded and brightly presented but never overly busy. Each plant has a large photograph to make identification easy.

I couldn't find one issue with this book - it's really well done and I'm very happy to have it in my reference library. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

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Librarian 22381

This profusely-illustrated DK book for the “horticulturally challenged” offers information on common houseplants, a picture index in the front, and a traditional index in the back. It’s a good book as far as it goes, but I would have expected it to list the easiest care plants for those new to houseplants.

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Sarah N, Reviewer

I have killed every houseplant I've ever owned. I currently have two succulents whose lives are hanging in the balance. This book is full of great little tips on how to care for your houseplants, and keep them alive! I wish I would've found it sooner!