Tuesday, September 28, 2021

The Inspired Houseplant

The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home With Indoor Plants
By Jen Stearns
Sasquatch Books, 2019. 192 pages. Nonfiction

The ultimate go-to guide for aspiring indoor gardeners, this book offers inspiration and instruction to envision and create your own gorgeous in-home garden spaces. With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice and creative garden-design inspiration. Whether you are looking to pick a statement plant for your living room, create a terrarium centerpiece, or arrange an artful display of air plants, this book will provide the tools you need. 

I'll be honest, one of the main reasons I picked up this book was because it is so pretty. It has great graphic, type, and color schemes which make the book very readable. In addition, the author seems to really understand people like me whose plants might need some extra help. I love all the helpful pictures and charts because they are so simple and clear. We'll see in a few months if the changes I made to my houseplants pay off, but so far, I'm feeling pretty confident! 

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By Claire Ratinon
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A vegetable garden is not an option for everyone, and so container growing has become desirable for people with little outside space. The book covers all the essentials of growing a range of edible plants in pots and meeting each crop's specific needs.

By Leslie Halleck
Timber Press, 2019. 255 pages. Nonfiction

In this beginner-friendly introduction to plant propagation, Halleck details the basic tools necessary, demystifies seed starting and saving, and shares easy-to-follow instructions for the most practical techniques for cutting, layering, dividing, and more. She also provides information on controlling pests and diseases, and transplanting seedlings and cuttings. 



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