Make more houseplants (for free!) with this comprehensive bible of propagation techniques, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions covering over a dozen methods for over 80 different houseplants.
Accompanied by full-color photographs and beautiful illustrations, The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation offers all the horticultural know-how you need to make new plants from existing plants. Learn how to successfully take stem, leaf, and petiole cuttings of your favorite houseplants, plus get plenty of insight into air and soil layering, division of offsets, water propagation, and even houseplant seed germination. Whether you are a beginner or advanced houseplant enthusiast, the easy-to-follow format allows you to start propagating right away. This is also the first book to take a deep dive into the pollination and breeding of Anthuriums to create your own unique hybrids, at home! Author Lindsay Sisti of @alltheplantbabies also introduces the best tools for different propagation techniques and shares the lowdown on various growing mediums to use with each propagation method. With help from The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation you'll be able to:
Whether your houseplant collection is focused on tropicals or succulents (or is a combination of both!), level-up your houseplant game by diving into DIY plant propagation. It's fun and easy--but only with the right guide at your side. This is the comprehensive propagation handbook you have been waiting for.
The No-Fear Guide to Caring for Your Plant Babies
Can't tell if you're over-watering or under-watering? Not sure when or how to fertilize? Impulsively bought that pretty plant and now wondering how to keep it alive? Well-intentioned plant parents, have no fear. Kellyn Kennerly, viral plant maven, can help shed some light (and soil and water!) on how to best take care of your houseplants. In this complete guide to helping your indoor jungle thrive, you will learn how to . . .The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, which combines exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects. Every day sees a discovery in the press about the new uses of plants, and it's certain that most of our most important drugs are derived from plants. From willow (used to procure aspirin) to periwinkle (used in chemotherapy to treat lymphoma) many common garden plants have provided cures in modern medicine. In this book readers can discover more than 200 life-saving plants and 25 home-grown remedies to make themselves. Each home cure is described and illustrated with step-by-step photographs to show how you can be a gardener and heal yourself.
Grow Your Own Cannabis Plants Indoors Using This Simple And Easy Guide.
Do you love excellent cannabis and want to try producing it at home?
Perhaps you need marijuana for medicinal reasons and wish to cultivate it at home.
Whatever your purpose, this book was created to educate you on cultivating marijuana indoors simply and straightforwardly. This book is appropriate for both novices and those who know a bit or two about cannabis.
Growing cannabis indoors is becoming a popular activity for Americans, particularly as public perceptions of the plants and their advantages shift. The reasons for its popularity are as diverse as the cannabis strains available today. Many people like marijuana, and it isn't as difficult to cultivate as many people imagine, which means people are becoming more aware of the potential this brings.
Indoor cannabis cultivation may be preferable to outdoor operations for various reasons. The plants are permitted to develop under supervision without being exposed to the same hazards they would face outside due to unpredictable weather conditions, pests, or other catastrophes. Indoor operations are a solid approach to generating high-grade buds after the grower has perfected the system.
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A handy Q&A guide by the authors of the Prairie Gardener series, Staying Alive: The Go-To Guide for Houseplants provides expert advice to ensure your houseplants thrive, wherever you call home.
Whether you have one tiny succulent on your desk at work or a massive collection of tropical plants in your home, caring for houseplants can be a real source of joy--and the occasional moment of wild frustration.
In this Q&A guide to happy, healthy houseplants, lifelong gardeners Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose are here with the insight you need to take you from perusing the plant shop to the dreaded repotting to splitting your mama spider into little spidies to share with friends. Learn:
Opening with a chapter on setting up a houseplant-friendly home, the pair talk containers, lighting, watering, soil and nutrients, propagation, pests and other problems, and offer a final grab bag of tips to help you satisfy some of those trickier plant pals in your midst (calling all orchids).
What is bonsai?
An old art form from East Asia called bonsai has captured the attention of admirers and enthusiasts all around the world. The word bonsai means tree in a tray or plantings in a pot in Japanese. A bonsai is a living piece of art that blends horticulture, perseverance, and creativity; it is not just a miniature tree. We will examine the history, philosophy, techniques, and tremendous delight that bonsai gives to both its practitioners and viewers as we delve into the soul of the practice in this section.
The art of growing miniature trees in pots dates back over a thousand years to ancient China, where bonsai originated. They adorned the gardens of aristocrats and emperors and were regarded as sacred specimens. Later, the bonsai art made its way to Japan, where it developed into the refined and distinctive style that we are familiar with today. Japanese Zen Buddhism, which places a strong emphasis on harmony, balance, and a deep respect for nature, has a significant impact on the development of bonsai.
In addition to being a visual art form, bonsai represents a philosophy that promotes reflection, patience, and a sense of connection with nature. The fundamental idea of bonsai is the coexistence of man and nature. The goal of a bonsai artist, also known as a bonsaika, is to replicate the magnificence and beauty of nature in miniature while capturing the essence of a full-sized tree in a small-scale imitation. Practitioners of bonsai work diligently to communicate their respect for life, impermanence, and the changing of the seasons by means of the meticulous development and care of a bonsai tree.
The world of houseplants just got tastier with this colorful guide to growing edible plants indoors!
Houseplant enthusiasts will be delighted to discover the range of tropical plants that can be grown in containers indoors, in any location. Laurelynn and Byron Martin, owners of Logee's Plants for Home & Garden, are nationally renowned for their expertise in growing fruit-bearing and tropical plants indoors. Their colorful guide features photos and complete care guidelines for 46 food-bearing plants, includes lemons, limes, grapefruit, cherries, olives, passion fruit, papaya, and much more. Fresh, fragrant, and flavorful, Edible Houseplants expands the fun and pleasure of growing indoor plants.