Looking to bring some outside greenery indoors? Maybe you already have an indoor garden and are looking to create a botanical jungle. Whatever the case may be, houseplants are an ideal inexpensive way to beautify your dwelling. You’ll be rewarded with purer air and you’re sure to enjoy watching your plant sprout, climb, and even flower. 
Of course, before you start working on crafting a greenhouse, you need to know what kinds of plants you can grown in your home and which plants are best suited to your taste and style. Houseplants For Dummies introduces dozens of different foliage plants, flowering plants, cacti, and exotic varieties. Your green thumb is sure to get even greener once you’ve read about: <ul>
<li>Houseplant basics</li> <li>Identifying indoor microclimates</li> <li>Indoor plant “biographies”</li> <li>Differentiating between direct, indirect, and low light</li> <li>Watering needs</li> <li>Rules of fertilizing</li> <li>Temperature and growing cycles</li> </ul>
Houseplants For Dummies is packed with houseplant growing techniques, tips, tricks, and even goes the extra mile with a chapter devoted to the various ways you can display houseplants if you’re looking for some bragging rights! Whether you’re new to the world of houseplant basics or you’re a seasoned gardener, you’ll get the “inside dirt” on topics such as: <ul>
<li>Various potting soil mixes</li> <li>Preparing plants for indoor life</li> <li>Cleaning, pruning, and staking</li> <li>Propagating houseplants</li> <li>Dealing with pests and diseases</li> <li>Building your own controlled climate</li> <li>And much more</li> </ul>
The material is arranged into six clear and helpful sections: houseplant basics, houseplant profiles, growing essentials, potted plant maintenance, houseplant settings, and valuable ideas – each section helping you create your own indoor forest. Even if you’re convinced you have a black thumb, Houseplants For Dummies will have you living among the green in no time!

Houseplants for Dummies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hodgson,Larry

Gardening & Landscape Design

For Dummies

Large hardcover, as pictured (gar)

Treasury of Gardening

Loewer, Peter

Ambler, Wayne

Christensen, Carol Landa

Pubns Intl

YOUR GUIDE TO HEALTHY HOUSEPLANTS Houseplants are a great way to bring a bit of the outdoors into your home. Recent studies even show that green plants cleanse the air around them. Your Guide to Healthy Houseplants is an easy-to-use source that will help you choose and care for houseplants that fit into your lifestyle. All of the basics - light, water, fertilizers, temperature, and humidity - are covered. The "Plant Profiles" section provides information and color photographs on more than 100 popular houseplant varieties and a trouble-shooting chart provides at-a-glance remedies for common plant problems. Your Guide to Healthy Houseplants will help your indoor garden grow!

Your Guide to Healthy Houseplants

Publications International

Marston, Ted

Ambler, Wayne S.

Pubns Intl Ltd

The title says it all-- there really are perennials for all of your gardening sites and needs. Whether you have a shady spot or want a plant that attracts birds, Perennials for Every Purpose features plants that are perfectly suited to your needs. Author Larry Hodgson expresses his passion for perennials with hands-on advice and tell-it-like-it-is descriptions. Larry never gives up on a plant until he has learned its strengths and weaknesses, and he delivers his hard-won secrets in this book.

Perennials For Every Purpose: Choose the Plants You Need for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste

Rodale Books

Annuals are very much back in style after the decades-long perennial revolution. You see annuals in every garden, with the old-fashioned flowers still among the most popular. With new varieties being launched every year and older ones (many dating back more than four or five years) disappearing just as quickly, gardeners need help sorting them out. Author Larry Hodgson tells you what to look for among the numerous new introductions: greater adaptability to growing conditions, longer period of bloom, improved insect and disease resistance, and more--everything, in fact, that you need to know to make growing annuals both simple and fun. You'll discover: How to cut back tired annuals, like sweet alyssum, to get them to rebloom even more intensely than before. How to save money by taking cuttings of so-called "designer" annuals, using one plant to create many. All about overwintering numerous "annuals" that are really tropical perennials. Which cool-loving annuals you can sow in the fall so they can sprout when the conditions are perfect the following spring. Simple tricks that make designing with annuals a snap. And much, much more! You'll find annual gardening has never been easier--or more exciting--than when you have Annuals for Every Purpose as a handy reference.

Annuals for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)

The title says it all-- there really are perennials for all of your gardening sites and needs. Whether you have a shady spot or want a plant that attracts birds, Perennials for Every Purpose features plants that are perfectly suited to your needs. Author Larry Hodgson expresses his passion for perennials with hands-on advice and tell-it-like-it-is descriptions. Larry never gives up on a plant until he has learned its strengths and weaknesses, and he delivers his hard-won secrets in this book.

Perennials for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste (Rodale Organic Gardening Books (Paperback))

Hot on the heels of the best-selling Perennials for Every Purpose, this new book has the same goal in mind-- to make growing annuals easier by presenting them in the way you use them in the garden. Whether you have a shady site or a cool climate or you want terrific annuals for beds or containers, you'll find more than 400 plants listed by their special feature rather than in plain alphabetical order. That's the "purpose" in the book's title, and it makes your job of choosing annuals effortless!

Indoor plants can be an essential element of interior design and decoration. This book describes how to incorporate plants successfully into any decor and provides compete information on plant care, propagating techniques, caring for and decorating with flowering houseplants, and making the best use of greenhouse environments.

Decorating with houseplants

Chevron Chemical Co.

SUCESSFUL HOUSEPLANTS answers all your questions about growing houseplants and decorating with them. You'll find invaluble design advice and photographs showing effective use of indoor plants, including information on growing and maintaining an indoor garden, and more.

Ortho's Complete Guide to Successful Houseplants

Powell, Charles C.

Lipanovich, Marianne

Ortho Books

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Houseplants for Dummies

Treasury of Gardening

Your Guide to Healthy Houseplants

Treasury of Gardening

Perennials For Every Purpose: Choose the Plants You Need for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste

Annuals for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)

Perennials for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste (Rodale Organic Gardening Books (Paperback))

Annuals for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)

Decorating with houseplants

Ortho's Complete Guide to Successful Houseplants