Taylor's Guide to Houseplants

Taylor's Guide to Houseplants
Author: Norman Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1987
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Includes visual key, section on orchid growing, information chart for 322 plants, and "more than 400 color photographs and 200 black-and-white drawings."

Taylor's Guide to Gardening Techniques

Taylor's Guide to Gardening Techniques
Author: Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780395564035

This new volume supplies the missing link in our distinguished series of Taylor's Guides to Gardening: a complete how-to book that explains and describes all the techniques a gardener needs to master to grow beautiful, healthy plants in the home landscape. 100 color photographs and 200 drawings; frost-date map and plant hardiness map.

Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants

Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
Author: Frances Tenenbaum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2003
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780618226443

With descriptions of more than 1,000 species, hundreds of line drawings, and 1,200 color photos, the "Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants" will be as useful 20 years from now as it is today.

Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening

Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening
Author: Roger Holmes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2001-10-18
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 061815907X

Provides information on growing trees, perennials, annuals, grasses, herbs, and bulbs, features the basics of garden design, and talks about environmentally sound controls of pests and diseases.

Taylor's Guide to Perennials

Taylor's Guide to Perennials
Author: Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2000
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780395983638

Perennials are every gardener's favorite plants. They provide colorful flowers and leafy foliage, and, best of all, their beauty returns year after year. In this fully illustrated guide, you’ll find - The best new cultivars of the beloved old-fashioned plants of grandmother’s garden - Exciting new introductions from all over the world - Today’s popular ornamental grasses, perfect for combining with other perennials in low-maintenance gardens - Ferns to grow among the flowers And for every plant pictured, you’ll find complete growing information as well as notes on how to propagate your own plants to fill your garden with "free" flowers.

Houseplants for Beginners

Houseplants for Beginners
Author: Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
Publisher: New Shoe Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2023-12-19
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 076038391X

Choose the right houseplants for your space and then help them thrive with Houseplants for Beginners at your side. Having happy, healthy plants can make a space feel happy and healthy too. They add color, texture, and beauty—and can also improve air quality. For new plant parents eager for these benefits, this affordable, adapted edition of Houseplants by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf offers easy-to-understand information and advice. Each chapter deals with a key element of houseplant care, including light, water, soil, potting, and containers. The book also offers details on how to pick the right plants for your specific living situation. Go beyond just keeping your plants alive to understanding how to make them thrive. With Houseplants for Beginners, you will learn: How to choose the right plants for your space and lifestyle The specific needs of each plant species you have chosen Care essentials, including light, soil, and watering basics This book is organized to take you from starter plants to caring for more adventurous choices like tropical, climbing, and flowering species. This is the resource you can depend on to take you from your very first plant to seasoned plant parent.

Taylor's Guide to Annuals

Taylor's Guide to Annuals
Author: Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1999
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780395943526

Several concurrent trends have created the need for a new book on annual plants. One is the increasing popularity of container gardening, for which these plants are particularly suited. Another is the hottest trend in landscaping -- creating a bold, even jungly look through the use of tropical plants and other dramatic specimens, most grown as annuals in temperate zones. To meet the demand, growers have developed hundreds of new plants and improved cultivars of old favorites. In this Taylor's Guide, buyers will find more than five hundred of the latest, trendiest plants and the best cultivars of the beloved old standbys.

Houseplants

Houseplants
Author: Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0760361940

What's the best way to nurture your green thumb when you don't have a yard or space? Houseplants! This is your guide to raising the best, healthiest, and happiest potted plants nature has ever seen. When you want to raise plants but just don’t have the space, then it’s time to turn to houseplants! Houseplants is the definitive guide to the millions of varieties that houseplants come in, and the different levels of maintenance, care and know-how they all require. Now is your chance to dive into this pleasant, no-yard-required hobby without the questions of which potting mix to try, what the right level of light you’ll need, or how to shift your plants as seasons change. Houseplants profiles more than 150 different plants, and gives you the best techniques to raise them to be happy, green, and healthy. And as you watch them grow, you can stimulate your inner botanist with the included information on each plant’s Latin family, varieties, bloom period, mature height, and other scientific specs.