Indoor gardening Books
Quadrille Publishing Ltd The Big Book of House Plants
Book Synopsis From dramatic palms and tropical leafy wonders to beautiful ferns and flowering potted plants – this book covers everything you need to know about nurturing and growing your own. Each of the 100 plants is accompanied by luscious photography and an easy-to-follow breakdown of all the essential requirements for that variety. This includes details on size, growth and flowering, along with any extra tips on caring for that specific plant. Perfect for anyone wanting to grow their indoor plant collection or a gift for a plant-loving friend, The Big Book of House Plants is the ultimate modern guide to all your indoor planting needs.
£15.19
Octopus Publishing Group My Tiny Kitchen Garden: Simple Tips to Help You
Book SynopsisYou don't need a garden to grow your own food! This book is the perfect beginner's guide to micro-gardening, featuring tips on how to start, what to choose and how to grow over 20 types of plant for your kitchen. Have you ever been curious about growing your own food? Do you lack a garden? Have you got limited space in your home? Then this book is for you! Whether you want to produce fresh herbs for your cooking, save money on your food bill, reduce your carbon footprint or enjoy the simple pleasure of watching something grow, My Tiny Kitchen Garden is bursting with tips and ideas to help you get started, including:- The basics of micro-gardening - Troubleshooting tips - Plant profiles to help you choose what to grow - Craft ideas to help you style your plants - Advice on growing food from scraps - How to save and store seeds Whether you're a budding gardener or a seasoned expert looking for seeds of inspiration, dive into this book to hone your green fingers and cultivate your very own tiny kitchen garden.
£8.54
CICO Books Gardening for Kids: 35 Nature Activities to Sow,
Book SynopsisPass on a love of gardening and nature to children with these 35 fun and rewarding outdoor and indoor projects. Gardening for Kids is full of inspirational ideas to get your kids excited about nature. Dawn Isaac shows you how to sow a wheelbarrow vegetable garden, make cress caterpillars, build an insect hotel, or plant a sunflower alley in your own backyard, using everyday objects and recycled junk. There are chapters on creative containers, from teapots to rainboots, windowsill gardening of foods such as cress and beans, and beautiful nature crafts that can be made indoors. Whether your outdoor space is big or small, or just a balcony or even a window ledge, these fun and creative ideas will keep your kids entertained—and learning about gardening—all year round.
£13.49
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Inspire: The Art of Living with Nature: 50
Book SynopsisFloral stylist Willow Crossley presents 50 uplifting projects to help you bring nature into your home. In Inspire: The Art of Living with Nature, Willow embraces her passion for plants and shows how to use both flower-shop purchases, beachcombing bounty, home-grown harvests and hedgerow finds foraged on countryside walks to decorate your home. Divided into five chapters on Woodland, Flora, Fauna, Edibles and Beach, here are more than 50 ideas ranging from hellebores displayed in test tubes to a wreath made from hydrangeas, spring narcissi planted in wooden wine boxes, a tabletop display incorporating apples and pears, displays of pebbles, coral and shells, sea urchins fashioned into napkin rings, hollowed-out red cabbages used as vases, a colourful posy of chillies and a stylish wall display of antlers and feathers.
£20.00
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Happy Houseplants: Grow Your Own Indoor Oasis
Book SynopsisCreate your very own urban jungle and help your houseplants thrive with this handy pocket guide to plant care. Houseplants bring life and energy into our homes, improving air quality and even boosting our productivity. But even the most committed plant parents may need a little guidance to keep their ferns flourishing and their bromeliads in bloom. Happy Houseplants is filled with essential advice on choosing the right plants for your space and lifestyle, whether you have a sun-drenched balcony or a shady home office. You will find plenty of information on caring for some of the most popular houseplants: how often to feed and water them, how much light they need and what kind of soil they prefer. The book also includes a wealth of troubleshooting ideas for common problems, from sunburnt leaves to pest control, giving you the confidence to revive your ailing plants. Charming photographs and illustrations throughout make this a colourful, accessible book for botanical beginners and gifted growers alike.
£9.49
Octopus Publishing Group House Plants
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£21.84
Thames & Hudson Ltd Houseplant Gardener in a Box
Book SynopsisWatch your home come to life with flowers and foliage, thanks to expert advice from the Houseplant Gardener. What sort of plants love a bathroom? How can you bring an orchid back into flower? What needs regular watering, and what doesn't mind if you forget? What can you put on a sunny windowsill, and what will send foliage tumbling attractively from a shelf? Author, journalist, podcaster, and now houseplant-gardener-in-a-box, Jane Perrone answers all these questions and hundreds more. Drawing on years of experience and research, her cards provide sensible, practical and inspiring advice. The accompanying book will guide you through the process of selecting plants, and Cody Bond's beautiful illustrations will inspire you along the way.
£17.99
Anness Publishing Complete Houseplant Book: Step-by-step advice on
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£10.16
Hole's What Grows Here? Indoors: Favorite Houseplants
Book SynopsisIf the word houseplant leaves you feeling a strange combination of excited and guilty, you''re not alone. Like all relationships, the one we have with houseplants is at its best when cultivated with understanding and good advice. That''s exactly what Jim Hole delivers in What Grows Here? Indoors. Jim transforms information into knowledge, hesitation into confidence and problems into solutions. Learn the basics about light, water & more Discover specifics about pests and diseases Learn to choose plants for both private and public settings, including homes, offices, schools and hospitals Fifty unique questions and answers highlight key tips to help you make confident choices. Complete with full-colour photography and in-depth plant listings, What Grows Here? Indoors will help you select the perfect houseplant for every situation.
£15.29
Books By Boxer Please Don't Die - A Helpful Guide To Owning
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£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Fix Your Garden: How to make small spaces into
Book SynopsisJust moved in and don’t know what to do with a messy garden or bleak-looking balcony? Want to stake your claim on a little corner of a shared garden? No gardening experience whatsoever? Fix Your Garden is the perfect solution. Packed with tips and tricks to get your green fingers going straight away, this beautifully illustrated little book will help you make the most of your outdoor space, even if you’ve only got a tiny windowbox. Aimed at the first-time homeowner or renter with little or no gardening know-how, it contains a wealth of information on how to make your garden grow and your balcony bloom, from early analysis of the soil to find out which plants will do best, to fixing that weed-covered wilderness of a backyard you’ve inherited and starting to grow your own fruit and veg. With tips on garden design and how to conquer common pests and diseases, this is a crash course in getting your outdoor space sorted, and also contains information on houseplants so you can bring a little bit of the outdoors in. Word count: 15,000
£9.49
Pimpernel Press Ltd Potted History: How Houseplants Took Over Our
Book SynopsisThere is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine Horwood’s combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design explains why, as Flanders and Swann sung in the 1950s, ‘the garden’s full of furniture / and the house is full of plants.’ In this fascinating book we learned how potted plants are as much subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For the Victorians, it was the aspidistra in the front parlour, the Edwardians loved a palm, and, for today’s millennials, no home is complete without the ubiquitous fiddle-leaf fig. This book show that there is little new when it comes to plants in the home. In the mid-18th century, Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and in the 1950s, some of Terence Conran’s earliest designs were for houseplant containers. Across the ages, the choice of potted plants has been influenced by the layout of houses, the levels of dirt and pollution and the equipment to hand. Now, with so much choice, we seem happy to treat houseplants as disposables. This book gives a better understanding of the miracles that were once achieved with indoor plant displays, inspired by Sir Hugh Platt’s 1608 vision of a garden ‘within doores’. This new edition has been revised with new material added to bring the history of the houseplant and its massive explosion in popularity right up to date.Trade Review"Before Instagram loved houseplants, Catherine was telling the story of them. Potted History is the essential tome for tracing the fascinating history of our obsession with indoor jungles. A must-read for any fan of bringing the outdoors in." -- Alice Vincent, author of Rootbound, Rewilding a Life"One of my favourite books on gardening. It's a story of potted plants from the bustle of Covent Garden in the 17th century to the Instagram age...Horwood's cleverness is to use the story to give wider insights into how we live, and indeed, how cities have changed over time." -- Christopher Woodward, Director, Garden Museum, London"Catherine Horwood... has found that rare thing: a genuinely new subject in interior design." -- Ros Byam Shaw * World of Interiors *"Dr Horwood’s remarkable research into the ‘flowerpot room; in Josiah Wedgwood’s Soho shop...There is also wonderful detail, too, on the Victorian obsession with indoor plants - all those ferneries and winter gardens." * Telegraph Gardening Books of the Year *"This book embarks on a journey through 400 years of changing fashions...well researched...and an enjoyable read." * The Professional Gardener *“A fascinating history of the houseplant that looks at how plants have been used inside the home through the centuries from as early as the 1600s…a thought-provoking read.” * Gardens Illustrated *“Anyone who is interested in houseplants will find this book fascinating. Anyone interested in social history will find this book equally impelling. I thoroughly enjoyed it.” * www.blackberrygarden.co.uk *"The author is a consummate garden historian with a talent for storytellling. This work reflects her considerable skill." -- The English Garden"Full of excellent detail and has taught me much." -- Financial Times * Robin Lane Fox *"Readers seeking an academic but accessible take on the relationship between houseplants and social history will enjoy this book." * Library Journal (US) *"Highly recommended." * The Horticulturist *"Writing with flair and just a bit of tongue in cheek...social historian and plant and garden enthusiast Horwood updates this book, first published in 2007, with renewed vigor." -- Booklist
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers My Tiny Indoor Garden
Book SynopsisNot everyone has access to outside space or what we traditionally think of as a garden, but we all have window ledges, shelves, stairways and unloved spots in our homes. My Tiny Indoor Garden is bursting with exciting ideas and savvy solutions to help you transform any indoor nook or cranny into a peaceful plant paradise.Whether you're looking for a mini kitchen garden or a sun-loving terrarium, we've unearthed an amazing collection of indoor and covered spaces. Among the 20 gardens featured in the book you'll find a jungle in a south London sitting room, a colourful cacti collection and a conservatory come orchid house.You'll pick up all the best tips and tricks as each indoor gardener shares their small-scale expertise, from using an array of bottles and jars to create a display of tiny botanical treasures to turning an antique chair into a lavish plant pot. Packed with practical advice, the latest title in Pavilion''s exciting gardening series also provides pointers on key aspects o
£13.49
Headline Publishing Group The Unkillables: 40 resilient house plants for
Book SynopsisFeaturing over 40 cool, high-maintenance-looking plants, The Unkillables will ensure your put your plant-murdering days firmly in the past, and will transform your home into the gorgeous green space you always dreamed of. Are you a plant killer? There's nothing more heart-breaking than bringing your new plant baby home, only to have it die a slow death in front of your very eyes. Was it too much water? Not enough sunlight? A drafty corner? The reasons for planticide can seem endless!In The Unkillables, Jo Lambell shares her houseplant knowledge so that even the biggest plant serial killers can have an abundant indoor garden. Jo will take the fear out of the unknown and equip those with no green fingers at all with the skills they need to keep their plants alive and thriving. Plants can be a little intimidating – with their fancy Latin names, complex terminology and 'just look at me and I'll perish' reputation – so choosing hardy, tolerant plants is the best place to start. Jo walks you through the basics of care – light, water, location – as well as sharing information on repotting, propagating, cleaning, First Aid and more.
£11.40
Smith Street Books Grow Your Own Pet Plants
Book SynopsisThis practical (and adorably illustrated) book offers tips on how to turn random garden cuttings into lifelong plant friends.Plants make great pets – they’re quiet, decorative, housetrained and (mostly) low-maintenance – and with this helpful guide, you’ll soon be the perfect plant parent! Grow Your Own Pet Plants has all the information you’ll need for green-thumbed success, from learning which plant to take home to how to help your leafy friend thrive in all conditions. Andrew Mikolajski provides helpful tips, from how to nurse and propagate cuttings to choosing a plant which suits your home and lifestyle. With a simple guide to more than 40 plant personalities and easy care advice, from feeding and grooming to showing off your new pet to guests, you’ll soon be the proud owner of a new collections of plant pets.
£9.49
Smith Street Books Leaf Supply Deck of Plants
Book SynopsisThis is the definitive deck for anyone obsessed with house plants.Staring at plants in the nursery but don''t know what to pick? Need some quick help reviving your favorite fern? Maybe you want to impress your other plant-loving (read: have no more flat surfaces) friends with your trivia? This deck of cards has everything you need to keep your plants thriving and become an expert on different varieties.From Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan of the Leaf Supply nursery comes this definitive deck for house plant care. Each of the 50 cards in the hardback box features a photo of a botanical beauty with a guide to care on the flip side. Perfect for anyone from a novice to an expert, this deck will help you keep your plants alive and happy. With an elegant design and plenty of useful facts, this is the ultimate deck for plant lovers or anyone dipping their toe into a creating a lusher space indoors.
£16.31
Smith Street Books Bloom: Flowering plants for indoors and balconies
Book SynopsisYou don’t need a sprawling garden to brighten your life with flowers. Bloom will show you how any space, no matter how small, can be transformed into a colourful oasis with flowering plants. The ultimate guide to beautiful blooms, Lauren and Sophia from Leaf Supply have tips for care, selection, styling and arrangement. A guide through the seasons, Bloom has everything you need to create flowering gardens indoors or on balconies. · Practical information on the best light, soil and care requirements · Details of when to plant and when flowers bloom · 60+ flowering plant profiles · Interviews with plant-lovers who have filled their homes with blooming plants
£21.00
Smith Street Books Pocket Plantcare
Book SynopsisBecome a green thumb in no time with this fun plant care deck.Looking for tips on how to care for your plants? Look no further than this deck of 50 cards! Featuring a wide variety of indoor plants, from the African Milk Tree to the Zebra Cactus, each card is packed with helpful tips and tricks for keeping your plants happy and healthy.Whether you’re a seasoned green thumb or a newbie to the world of plant care, this deck has something for everyone. You’ll learn about the unique needs of each plant, including how much light, water, fertilizer, and grooming they require, and even some fun facts about their history and origins.Each card is brought to life with a vibrant color illustration of the plant, making it easy to identify and care for them. And with 50 different plants to choose from, you’re sure to find something that fits your environment and lifestyle.Whether you’re looking to add some greenery to your home or
£16.31
Smith Street Books Leaf Supply
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£23.75
Smith Street Books The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor
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£20.00
Rockpool Publishing The Language of Houseplants: Plants for home and
Book SynopsisFind the perfect indoor plant to share your life with. Every plant has a meaning, energy and qualities that will enhance your life and the spaces you live and work in. This stunning guidebook features 44 of the most popular houseplants, each beautifully depicted with a vintage artwork and additional indoor gardening care guide and some helpful tips to keep your plants happy and healthy. Resource lists of plants for each month, and their meanings, a gift guide, as well as information on ways for you to discover the language of any plant, will assist you as you grow a thriving bond with your new botanical friends.
£14.24
AVEdition Plants at Work: An inspirational guide to
Book SynopsisPlants change working environments, adding a touch of nature and style and improving the indoor climate. Through their form, colour and type of growth, they represent a living design material. Whether it is in an open-plan office, co-working space or employee lounge, their positive effect on people is visible and tangible. This book is targeted towards those who want to integrate plants into their spatial concepts. With current examples of greenterior design, artistic plant constellations and insights into the design of plant pots, along with background knowledge from exemplary projects and interior architecture with botany.
£29.75
Page Street Publishing Happy Healthy Houseplants
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£18.89
