Success With Houseplants
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More than 1500 illustrations combine with concise, expert advice to ensure success with nearly every type of house plant, including flowering and foliage plants, indoor trees, ferns, mosses, creepers, cacti, and other succulents.Tags
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Great guide to cultivation of most common and quite a lot of exotic houseplants.
Initial section on appreciation and use of houseplants ut the bulk of the book is mad eup of the A-Z.
Illustrated mostly with monochrome line drawings or coloured sketches, each entry gives general info followed y recommended varieties/cultivars and details of how to care for the plant covering light, temperature, watering, feeding, potting/repotting and propagation requirements.
Initial section on appreciation and use of houseplants ut the bulk of the book is mad eup of the A-Z.
Illustrated mostly with monochrome line drawings or coloured sketches, each entry gives general info followed y recommended varieties/cultivars and details of how to care for the plant covering light, temperature, watering, feeding, potting/repotting and propagation requirements.
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- Alternate titles
- Success with House Plants
- Original publication date
- 1979
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- [None]
- First words
- The opening pages of Success with House Plants provide a largely pictorial introduction to the attractive and colorful world of the indoor gardener.
How to use this book : appreciating house plants. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Woody Refers to plant tissue that becomes lignified and hard, persisting throughout the plant's rest periods even if leaves die away. Thus, woody stems are more or less permanent. Compare herbaceous.
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 635.965
- Canonical LCC
- SB419
Classifications
- Genres
- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 635.965 — Applied science & technology Agriculture Garden crops (Horticulture) Flowers and ornamental plants Special areas and purposes Houseplants
- LCC
- SB419 — Agriculture Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding Plant culture Flowers and flower culture. Ornamental plants Roof gardening. Balcony gardening
Statistics
- Members
- 490
- Popularity
- 61,506
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.75)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 8
