As winter drags on, gardening withdrawl sets for many gardeners. Caring for houseplants, including dividing or repotting can provide a little taste of gardening to hold you over until spring arrives.
Houseplants : the complete guide to choosing, growing, and caring for indoor plants
Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
635.965 /Steinkopf
Gardening
Houseplants profiles more than 150 different plants, and gives you the best techniques to raise them to be happy, green, and healthy. Houseplants gives you the best techniques to water, fertilize, groom, propagate and more—helping you keep your plants healthy.
How not to kill your houseplant : survival tips for the horticulturally challenged
Veronica Peerless
635.965 /Peerless
Gardening
Do you have a "black thumb? Does just looking at plants cause them to wither and die? Peerless offers advice on keeping houseplants alive, even if you're horticulturally challenged. She shows you how to create an oasis of happy flourishing houseplants, and even give suggestions for different areas of your house.
The title is not just a hook – Peerless has written a great guide for those of us who for one reason or another have no luck with houseplants. Too much of the wrong kind of love or not enough of the right kind of light – there are many things that lead to plant demise. This book is helpful even If you’re not sure what type of plant you have. It begins with close to 200 plant thumbnails to help you figure out what plant you're dealing with.
- Beth
The little book of cacti and other succulents
Emma Sibley
635.93356 /Sibley
Gardening
The perfect plant pets, cacti and succulents are easy to care for and resilient to even the laziest of gardeners. With the right information, growing these plants is virtually foolproof. This must-have practical guide will help your indoor plants to grow and thrive.
If I had to buy only one new about Cactus this year. Comparing it to other Cactus and Succulent books in our collection, this book has more of the things I actually own in it. Nicely organized with nice compact entries that give the needs, care and quirks of each plant. Each entry has a large color photograph as well.
- Beth
Prick : cacti and succulents : choosing, styling, caring
Gynelle Leon
635.93356 /Leon
"Cacti and succulents are the plants of the moment. Beautiful, affordable and - if you know how - easy to care for, they're a shortcut to creating brighter, calmer, more relaxing spaces in the home and office. In Prick, cacti and succulent expert Gynelle Leon gives you all the knowledge you need to help your plants thrive - from a plant index showcasing all the weird and wonderful varieties available, to simple advice on how to choose, care for and style your plant for maximum impact"--Back cover.
My second favorite new book on Cacti and Succulents. Well designed and written. I especially like the diagrams in the beginning of the anatomy of both cacti and succulents. The section of Care at the back includes water, feeding and a nice guide to repotting a cacti without hurting yourself, which is great for those new to cacti.
- Beth
Success with succulents : choosing, growing, and caring for cactuses and other succulents
John Bagnasco
635.9525 /Bagnasco
Gardening
"Succulents and cacti are wildly popular in homes the world over, regardless of climate. Whether you're in the southwestern United States enjoying succulents on the patio, or raising a cactus garden on a windowsill in Minnesota, this book has something for you.Success with Succulents is filled with well-known and unusual species of cactuses and succulents, as well as tips and techniques for caring for these water-sipping species. Color combinations outdoors, growing indoors, ideal soil and soil mixes, watering, fertilizing, grooming, and propagation sections teach all kinds of things about caring for cactuses and succulents. The book also includes more than 100 plant profiles, with details that will help you succeed in gardening prickly and waxy varieties of all kinds."--
Not really an introduction to growing cactus and succulents as much as a home reference guide, this wonderful book can keep you entertained for hours learning about choosing and caring for both indoor and outdoor succulents
- Beth
Designing with succulents
Debra Lee Baldwin
635.9525 /Baldwin
This new, completely revised second edition of her bestselling classic is a design compendium that is as practical as it is inspirational. Designing with Succulents shares design and cultivation basics; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and profiles of 50 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Lavishly illustrated with 400 photographs, you will find everything you need to visualize, create, and nurture a thriving, water-smart succulent garden.
Debra Lee Baldwin's 2nd edition of this book is even better than the original - which was pretty great. Encyclopedic information about a variety of succulents with great ideas on how to combine them in your garden or landscape. If you only think of green when you think of succulents, you should look at the photographs in this book.
- Beth
This is a great book for anyone with houseplants. A well written easy to follow guide, it begins with a section on the basics of houseplant care. What I liked most about this book is how the 150+ plant profiles in the second half of the book. She has grouped them into 3 categories: Easy to Grow Moderately Easy and Challenging. Each category starts with multiple pages of thumbnail images to help you figure out what plant you have. Each plant profile has the common as well as botanical Latin name, a description, the plant’s light and water requirements, propagation methods and cultivars.
- Beth