Kay Maguire, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens

The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing House Plants (eBook, ePUB)

The art and science to grow your own house plants
Fotograf: Jason Ingram

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Which are delicate and which indestructible? - We show how to find the right home for your plants and the right plants for your home. The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing House Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, combining exquisite botanical illustrations with practical indoor projects. Readers can discover over 75 life-changing plants and 12 home-transforming projects. Each project is described and illustrated with step-by-step photographs. Starting from the premise that we want to show how to grow the right plant in the right place, we demonstrate the benefits of all common house plants and how to care and curate them in the home. Includes cacti, succulents, bromeliads including air plants, foliage house plants, flowering house plants, and house plants for scent and air freshening.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Lion Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780711240384
• Artikelnr.: 56967937

Autorenporträt

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has cultivated plants for more than 250 years. Today, Kew's horticulturists grow over 19,000 species of plants in the gardens - the most diverse collection in the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
INTRODUCTION to the book: Why have houseplants (good for mental health,
phsychologically, for beauty, health, clean air. Finding a plant for your
home and finding a home for your plant, using the book to ensure success.
DISPLAY, staging, modern use: solo, sequence, habitat, negative space,
feature, vertical, stands, hanging, privacy. Considering shape, texture,
form, size, scale.
WHAT can we grow and WHERE: What are houseplants?
EIGHT GROUPS. Where they come from, how to look after them, the rooms where
you can display them. Native habitat dictates our care.
Eight groups are: Ferns; Palms; Cactus; Succulents; Bromeliads including
Air plants; Flowering house plants (possibly shorter or longer); Foliage;
Carnivorous.
HOW TO GROW in general: consider situation, right plant right place,
temperature, light, humidity
including: Kit and bit on containers to grow them in. This practical
section includes the key care points: watering; heating; choosing compost;
changing humidity; feeding; repotting; cleaning; holiday care.
MAKING MORE PLANTS Propagating in five ways: leaf cuttings using begonia or
sanseveria; bulbil babies using sedum; division of palm roots;
suckers/offshoots and runners using chlorophytum; adventitious roots using
hoya
HOUSE PLANT PORTRAITS
PROJECTS 12 projects including Kokedama; Plant leaf in a clear glass
frame; A series of Sanseveria pots on a windowsill for privacy; Cactus
grafting for impressive results; Macrame hanging planter; Air plant mobile;
Desert Plant stand; Tray of succulents with strong pattern and landscape
feel; Air fresheners collection; Touch me, touch me not.
PROBLEMS: trouble shooting, preventative and curative 
endmatter (index and acknowledgments)