Author: Jack KramerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Philodendron Pink Princess Guide
Author: Georgia LaurettePublisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781034534198
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Pink princess philodendron, with striking pink and black leaves, are one of the hottest plant out there. Finding a plant is only half the battle, the rest is taking care of it properly and that's where this book comes in handy. With 68 full color pages of illustrations and photographs, this guide covers everything you need to know about how to care for your own pink princess. From the history and parentage to where to find one and how to propagate it, this guide has it all. There's even a foreword by the legendary aroid botanist, Dr. Croat himself!
CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants
Author: Umberto QuattrocchiPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482250640
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 4038
Book Description
Written as a reference to be used within University, Departmental, Public, Institutional, Herbaria, and Arboreta libraries, this book provides the first starting point for better access to data on medicinal and poisonous plants. Following on the success of the author's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of Grasses, the author provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants. It serves as an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with plants in medicine, food, and cultural practices as it draws on a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources. This authoritative lexicon is much more than a dictionary. It includes historical and linguistic information on botany and medicine throughout each volume.
Author: H. D. ClarkeThe Complete Houseplant Survival Manual
Author: Barbara PleasantPublisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1580175694
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
It’s a whole new world of houseplants, so make yourself at home in it! If you love the idea of keeping houseplants, but struggle to care for them, you’ll find solace and invaluable advice in this comprehensive guide from expert gardener Barbara Pleasant. Even experienced houseplant enthusiasts will benefit from Pleasant’s expansive knowledge of indoor gardening, which includes personality profiles, growing needs, and troubleshooting tips for 160 blooming and foliage varieties. Create a greener world, one houseplant at a time.
The New Plant Parent
Author: Darryl ChengPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683353242
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The creator of Instagram’s House Plant Journal mixes love with scientific logic in this beautifully photographed guide for indoor gardeners. For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. With this book, indoor gardeners can be less a passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all of the basics of growing house plants, from finding the right light, to everyday care like watering and fertilizing, to containers, to recommended species. Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for over half a million indoor gardeners.
The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation
Author: Lindsay SistiPublisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 076039041X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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: Take leaf cuttings of your favorite succulent Divide the corms of your Alocasia plant Separate aerial and underground tubers from a String of Hearts plant Make more Anthuriums through stem cuttings, divisions, and seed propagation Root Hoyas and Snake Plants by taking stem cuttings Air layer your Philodendron or Monstera Propagate your ZZ Plant or Snake Plants by dividing the rhizome or rooting leaf cuttings Take petiole cuttings of Pileas, Peperomias, Begonias, and many others 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.
Kate
Author: Charles HighamPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393325980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Katharine Hepburn first authorized Higham to interview her closest friends and colleagues about her career, life, and behind-the-scenes romantic involvements from Leland Hayward to Spencer Tracy. And in this vivid portrait, she herself tells the deeply moving story of her 25-year love affair with Tracy.
Welcome to the Jungle
Author: Enid OffolterPublisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1984859951
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Graduate from ordinary houseplants to extraordinary ones with these 50 desirable, dramatic plants and expert tips on how to obtain, grow, and propagate them. “A visually stunning book with great information for rare plant collectors.”—Morgan Doane and Erin Harding, authors of How to Raise a Plant and Make It Love You Back If you’re bored with the same old entry-level houseplants and long for something new, up your game with Enid Offolter. Called “the Houseplant Queen” by the New York Times, Offolter and her company, NSE Tropicals, are celebrities within the rare plant community, with legions of obsessed Instagram followers and plants that sell in heated auctions for thousands of dollars. In Welcome to the Jungle, Offolter shows you how to grow and propagate some of these exceptional botanicals on your own. From the king anthurium with its deeply pleated leaves to velvety Colombian beauties known to make collectors drop to their knees, to plants with hot-pink leaves, bizarre corkscrew-shaped flower spikes, lacy fenestration, and dramatic variegation, these amazing aroids (a family of plants known for its extravagant foliage) bring a lush, tropical aesthetic to your home that will make you the envy of all your plant-loving friends. If you’re ready to rise up to the next level, Welcome to the Jungle is full of tips, professional advice, behind-the-scenes stories from fellow plant collectors, and the inspiration you need to grow plants that make a statement.
Fundamentals of Ornamentals Horticulture and Landscape Gardening
Author: Ajai Kumar TiwariPublisher: New India Publishing Agency
ISBN: 9789381450079
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Ornamental Horticulture is a branch of Horticulture which deals with commercial growing of flowers ornamental plants and beautification of surroundings. This subject assumes great importance in improving total environment and checks visual pollution by way of beautification. The flowers have been eulogised by poets and artists for generations not merely for their ornamental properties but for their versatile curative properties. The Study of ornamental horticulture comprises of two parts i.e. the knowledge of growing of plants like annuals, shrubs, climber, trees, bulbous, succulents and cactus, shade loving plants, lawn etc. and their use in beautification programme. The information on above aspect is scattered in different book and a great difficulty was being felt by students, landscapers and scientist. In this context, a need of simple book on introduction, cultivation and management of ornamental plants is highly demanded by student of Horticulture and florists of India. This book describes in details collection identification, propagation, cultivation, nutritional & weed management, plant and flowers senescence management etc., of annuals, herbs, shrubs, climbers and ornamental trees. Since, beautification involves the principles of art and gardening styles. Therefore, bio aesthetic planning, basics of landscaping and flowers arrangement have also been discussed in details. Special care has been taken to present the subject matter in a simple and lucid style. Book further includes recent available information. The illustrations have been drawn from own specimens with photographs.
