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Author : Darryl Cheng
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781683353249

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The New Plant Parent by Darryl Cheng Pdf

The creator of Instagram’s House Plant Journal mixes love with scientific logic in this beautifully photographed guide for indoor gardeners. For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. With this book, indoor gardeners can be less a passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all of the basics of growing house plants, from finding the right light, to everyday care like watering and fertilizing, to containers, to recommended species. Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for over half a million indoor gardeners.

Author : Nico Vermeulen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1579581080

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Encyclopedia of House Plants by Nico Vermeulen Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David W. Nellis
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Animal toxins
ISBN : 1561641111

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Poisonous Plants and Animals of Florida and the Caribbean by David W. Nellis Pdf

Contains color photographs of the poisonous plants and animals inhabiting Florida and the Caribbean. Also provides in-depth information for scientists and medical personnel regarding toxins, symptoms, and treatments.

Author : Ernest Small
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439856888

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Top 100 Exotic Food Plants by Ernest Small Pdf

Many edible plants considered exotic in the Western world are actually quite mainstream in other cultures. While some of these plants are only encountered in ethnic food markets or during travels to foreign lands, many are now finding their way onto supermarket shelves. Top 100 Exotic Food Plants provides comprehensive coverage of tropical and semitropical food plants, reviewing scientific and technological information as well as their culinary uses. Wide-ranging in scope, this volume’s coverage includes plants that produce fruits, vegetables, spices, culinary herbs, nuts, and extracts. A user-friendly format enables readers to easily locate information on botanical and agricultural aspects, economic and social importance, food uses, storage, preparation, and potential toxicity. The book also contains an introductory chapter that reviews important historical, economic, geopolitical, health, environmental, and ethical considerations associated with exotic food plants. Thoroughly referenced with more than 2000 literature citations, this book is enhanced by more than 200 drawings, many chosen from historical art of extraordinary quality. This timely volume also highlights previously obscure edible plants that have recently become prominent as a result of sensationalistic media reports stemming from their inherently entertaining or socially controversial natures. Some of these plants include the acai berry, kava, hemp, and opium poppy. A scholarly yet accessible presentation, the book is filled with numerous memorable, fascinating, and humorous facts, making it an entertaining and stimulating read that will appeal to a broad audience.

Author : Lim T. K.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048186617

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Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants by Lim T. K. Pdf

This multi-compendium is a comprehensive, illustrated and scientifically up-to-date work covering more than a thousand species of edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, researchers, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, agriculturists, botanists, herbalogists, conservationists, teachers, lecturers, students and the general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy (botanical name and synonyms); common English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agro-ecological requirements; edible plant part and uses; botany; nutritive and medicinal/pharmacological properties, medicinal uses and current research findings; non-edible uses; and selected/cited references. Each volume covers about a hundred species arranged according to families and species. Each volume has separate scientific and common names indices and separate scientific and medical glossaries.

Author : Risqi Firdaus Setiawan,Hisaaki Kato,Hanilyn Aguilar Hidalgo,Fitri Diana Riana
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789464631685

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Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agriculture (ICA 2022) by Risqi Firdaus Setiawan,Hisaaki Kato,Hanilyn Aguilar Hidalgo,Fitri Diana Riana Pdf

This is an open access book. The global economy is by definition the movement of resources (goods, services and capital) across national borders. The more open relations between countries will affect changes in the regional and global regions, this condition is characterized by the level of domestic economic resilience. Currently, technology with its dynamics requires every country to move to follow, citing at the G20 the role of multilateral trading system to strengthen the achievement SDGs, digital trade sustainable, global value chains (GVCs) and sustainable and inclusive industrialization via industry 4.0. Based on the statement above, it shows that modernization and sustainable 4.0 equivalent industrialization are the demands of multi-sectors including the agricultural sector. For Indonesia, agriculture plays a strategic role in the national economy, with the challenges of sustainable agriculture, the role of agriculture is shown in addition to being a provider of food, industrial raw materials, feed and bioenergy, a source of labor absorption, a source of state foreign exchange as well as environmental preservation with an environmentally friendly farming program approach. Sustainable agriculture practices are ideal, but the dimensions of the scope of sustainable agriculture interests and the substance of their meaning are definitely different. Through the international agricultural seminar or The 3rd International Conference Agriculture (ICA) with the theme Modernization And Industrialization To Support Sustainable Agriculture Facing Global Economy which will be held on September 21, 2022 is one of the efforts in equalizing understanding and collecting sustainable farming innovations that are in line with the sustainable development goals and have become the country's commitment in order to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the face of the global economy.

Author : Emily L. Hay Hinsdale
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781982189822

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What Is My Plant Telling Me? by Emily L. Hay Hinsdale Pdf

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.

Author : Kamili Bell Hill
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780760379516

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Happy Plants, Happy You by Kamili Bell Hill Pdf

In Happy Plants, Happy You, author Kamili Bell Hill of @PlantBlerd shows you that spending quality time with your plants is spending quality time with yourself. Houseplants are so much more than a living decorative accent for your home or a relaxing hobby, and caring for houseplants should not be a mindless task. Instead, it’s an opportunity to check in with yourself as you check in with your plants. You’ll learn how houseplants can help you avoid burnout and bring a healthy focus to your own self-care. As it turns out, when you tend to your houseplants, you’re also tending to yourself. Houseplants have a lot of lessons to teach about relationships and the importance of a little give and take, including how to focus on the ones who love you back and how—like getting rid of a dead leaf or a mealybug—sometimes you gotta cut bait and bail on relationships that are bringing you down. Author Kamili Bell Hill used houseplants to exit the stress highway that was overtaking her life and she knows they can do the same for you. Easy houseplant-care tips to help build your confidence in growing, combined with wise and witty words on everything from managing “devil-spawn fungus gnats” to making your houseplant leaves shine like the top of the Chrysler Building, Happy Plants, Happy You is part self-exploration, part houseplant handbook. In a nutshell, it’s a plant-based roadmap to a happier you. You’ll get the lowdown on: How to choose the right plants for you as a person, not just for your growing conditions Advice on avoiding “vampire relationships” with plants (and people!) that suck you dry A wish list of the best tools for houseplant parents How to date several plants before settling on the best ones for you The art of letting go of things that aren’t thriving Giving up on the illusion of control—and being totally okay with it As your plants grow, you will too. Houseplants are a guilt-free path to peace, and the result of stepping into an intentional plant-care/self-care routine will be happy plants and a happy you.

Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 4038 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420080445

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CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants by Umberto Quattrocchi Pdf

"Following on the successes of two previous dictionary projects, the CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of the Grasses, Umberto Quattrocchi has undertaken this dictionary of economically important plants.... He has done for these plants what was so admirably done in his other works—brought the vast and scattered literature on plant names, and in this case, too, their uses, into coherent order so that the inquisitive scholar can get a foothold." —From the Foreword, Donald H. Pfister, Harvard University and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts The CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology provides the starting point for better access to data on plants used around the world in medicine, food, and cultural practices. The material found in the five volumes has been painstakingly gathered from papers of general interest, reports and records, taxonomic revisions, field studies, herbaria and herbarium collections, notes, monographs, pamphlets, botanical literature, and literature tout court. It includes sources available at various natural history libraries, floras and standard flora works, local floras and local histories, nomenclatural histories, and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Much more than a dictionary, the book provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants, concise summaries of plant properties, and appropriate observations about medicinal uses. Drawing from a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources, it is an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy, toxicology, medicinal and natural product chemistry, and agriculture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Plant diseases
ISBN : UIUC:30112009650331

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The Plant Disease Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Plant diseases
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119614480

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The Plant Disease Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781631598845

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Creative Houseplant Projects by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf Pdf

Creative Houseplant Projects introduces readers to the world of growing and decorating with houseplants through care tips and fun DIY houseplant crafts.

Author : agrihortico
Publisher : AGRIHORTICO
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plants for Aesthetic Interiors by agrihortico Pdf

Indoor plants are widely used to beautify the interiors of offices, commercial buildings, and houses. Both flowering and non-flowering/foliage indoor plants are used for beautification of interiors. Indoor plants may be arranged either as single specimens or in groups for beautification purposes. Different types of indoor plants are used for different purposes of decoration and beautification. Indoor plants are the most ideal choices for ecofriendly interior decoration. Indoor plants add charm to the architectural beauty of the house and they compliment the interior settings of the house.

Author : Heather Rodino
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781454932918

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How to House-Plant by Heather Rodino Pdf

In this beginner’s guide to indoor gardening, you’ll learn how to care for fifty of the most popular houseplants. Houseplants are more popular than ever: as expert writer and gardening enthusiast Heather Rodino notes, “plants have demonstrated therapeutic value, clean the air, and are an affordable way of decorating, adding beauty to your home, and making even the smallest rented space feel like your own.” She offers a lighthearted, colorfully illustrated overview of caring for your indoor garden, profiling fifty of the most popular houseplants, from the Boston fern and the fiddle-leaf fig to the moth orchid. Her accessible advice on handling pests and diseases, troubleshooting problems, and assessing your growing conditions, will give novices the confidence they need to begin nurturing their own collection. Includes tips and lists detailing everything from which plants are pet-friendly to the top five plants for frequent travelers.

Author : Lewis S. Nelson,Michael J. Balick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493989263

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Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants by Lewis S. Nelson,Michael J. Balick Pdf

This third edition of the Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants is designed to assist the clinician in the initial response to the needs of a child or adult exposed to a poisonous or injurious plant. It highlights common and important plants that lead to the adverse effects upon exposure, and it describes the mechanisms of action of the implicated toxin, clinical manifestations, and specific therapeutics, as available, for each. This truly comprehensive resource is botanically rigorous with insights from both the pharmacognosy and medical literature. At the same time, it is also for those who are interested in growing and enjoying the plants in their environment, filling in a not-often-discussed botanical and horticultural niche that goes beyond their beautiful physical appearance. Plants contain many useful chemicals that humans have used for millennia as botanical curatives. This book will help the reader understand the fine balance between a medication and a poison, why plants contain these natural substances, and their impact on the human body. With its thorough references and full-color photos of hundreds of potentially toxic and injurious plants inside and outside the home, this book is useful for identifying and addressing concerns about cultivated species and those found in the wild. This book will be of interest to botanists, horticulturists, clinicians, and naturalists as well as hikers, gardeners, and all those who simply enjoy the wonders of nature and the great outdoors.