Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants

Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants
Author: Alessandro Chiusoli
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986
Genre: House plants
ISBN: 9780671631314

A guide to selecting the right plants for an indoor environment explains how and when to feed, repot, and prune house plants, how to protect them from pests and diseases, and the best ways to arrange and support them.

What Is My Plant Telling Me?

What Is My Plant Telling Me?
Author: Emily L. Hay Hinsdale
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1982189819

Keep your house plants alive and thriving with this illustrated, accessible guide to popular house plants for new and experienced plant-parents alike. Many new gardeners are finally starting to understand why bringing the outside indoors is so appealing. From improving home décor to mental health, plants have so many benefits. But keeping them alive (and most importantly, thriving) isn’t always easy! What does it mean if your plant has brown tips? Rotting roots? Yellow leaves? The list goes on. Don’t you just wish your plants could communicate what’s wrong and how to fix it? What Is My Plant Telling Me? answers all your plant-based questions making it the perfect companion for anyone interested in keeping their plants looking their best. This illustrated guide to the fifty most popular house plants will show you how to: -Speak your plant’s language -Identify classic distress signals -Intervene successfully to keep your plants thriving for years to come -Choose plants that work best for your space -Pick the best locations within your home to keep your new plants -Identify the pot size needed when you want to replant -And more! Whether you’re interested in growing a cactus, orchid, or even the popular Fiddle Leaf Fig, this book is the perfect guide to deciphering the message your plant is telling you and what you can do to revive it.

Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom

Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom
Author: Emily L. Hay Hinsdale
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1982165847

Create your own green indoor paradise with this beautifully illustrated room-by-room guide to bringing the outdoors inside—perfect for plant parents everywhere! Decorating with plants adds a fresh, natural touch to any room. Potted plants can uplift a living space with serious mood-boosting power, reducing stress, improving air quality, and even providing fresh herbs for that next meal! But first, you have to keep them alive. Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom shows you how to maximize these health benefits and decorate like a pro, all while covering the essentials of plant care and maintenance. Full of home design and practical plant care tips, this illustrated guide helps you choose the right plants for your space, from succulents and spider plants to pothos and ZZ plants. Inside you’ll find: -Plant Care Instructions including watering instructions for popular types of plants and a guide to repotting your new plant babies -Over 70 Plant Recommendations from the easy peace lily to a dramatic monstera, feel like a pro as you design your perfect indoor garden -The Room-by-Room Guide covering which herbs and veggies can be grown in your kitchen to, yes, why you should never put that cactus in your bathroom -Crafting a Healthy Home with plants through purifying the air, adding beautiful aromas, and bringing a little nature inside -Beautiful Illustrations to ignite your own creativity and inspiration as you plan your newest addition to your home! Perfect for fans of Wild at Home, Urban Jungle, and Wellness by Design, this book will give plant lovers the tools and confidence they need to bring houseplants into every corner of their homes, improve their quality of life, and turn their home into a natural sanctuary.

Houseplants for a Healthy Home

Houseplants for a Healthy Home
Author: Jon VanZile
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1507207301

This A-to-Z guide illuminates the numerous health benefits of 50 common, easy-to-grow houseplants along with detailed care instructions and beautiful illustrations of each plant. With plant-scaped rooms popping up all over Pinterest, style blogs, and home décor magazines, houseplants are the hottest home accessory right now—and for good reason. Plants are a quick and easy way to add life, color, and texture to any indoor space. But houseplants offer so much more than just visual interest to a room. They can purify the air, reduce stress, improve sleep—and much more! Houseplants for a Healthy Home explains the specific health and wellness benefits of 50 common, easy-to-grow, and popular houseplants, while introducing you to new favorites bound to brighten your life. You will find an A-to-Z guide of a variety of the plants that includes a beautiful illustration of each plant, along with the plant’s health benefits and clear, detailed care instructions. Let Houseplants for a Healthy Home lead you to a life in full bloom.

At Home with Plants

At Home with Plants
Author: Ian Drummond
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1784728497

*** A stylish addition to the current craze for indoor greenery, this is as much about how you use plants as an integral part of contemporary decor as how to keep them alive and well. - The Sunday Times Houseplants are hot, and creative interior planting is becoming increasingly easy to achieve. The new wave of unusual and dramatic indoor plants is as much about décor and statement as greenery. Used aesthetically, as a focal point and sculptural element in interior design, indoor gardening is not just about possessing or growing a plant, but about using it as an accessory combined with other objects to create a particular style and mood. In this much-needed book, now reissued with a new cover and updated source directory, Ian and Kara show you how to transform your home with plants and tells you which plants will work best where and how to care for them. From strikingly geometric terrariums to pretty hanging baskets, practical herb pots and colourful window displays, this book is packed full of exciting and gorgeous ideas. Specially commissioned photography by Nick Pope throughout proves that bringing the outdoors in really is the best form of interior design.

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Shells

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Shells
Author: Bruno Sabelli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1980
Genre: Shellfish
ISBN: 0671253204

"Field guide, with more than 1230 illustrations in ... color and information on appearance, size, geographic occurence, ecological environment"--Jacket.

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Houseplants

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Houseplants
Author: Alessandro Chiusoli
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1986
Genre: House plants
ISBN: 9780671632182

This guide gives information on 243 plants and how to care for them.

The Simon & Schuster Guide to Climbing Plants

The Simon & Schuster Guide to Climbing Plants
Author: Francesca Consolino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: Ornamental climbing plants
ISBN: 0671510509

The newest entry in the "Nature Guide Series", this comprehensive, fully-illustrated book presents everything the gardener needs to know about identifying, selecting, and growing for more than 150 varieties of climbing plants. 216 full-color photos and illustrations.

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Cats

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Cats
Author: Gino Pugnetti
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1983
Genre: Cat breeds
ISBN: 0671491709

Describes the characteristics and behavior of various longhair and shorthair breeds, looks at the history of cats, and discusses their care and grooming.

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Insects

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Insects
Author: Ross H. Arnett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1981
Genre: Insects
ISBN: 0671250140

An ... field guide to 350 species, with more than 1000 ... full-color illustrations.