The Hidden Histories Of Houseplants

Author : Maddie Bailey,Alice Bailey
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781784884178

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The Hidden Histories of Houseplants by Maddie Bailey,Alice Bailey Pdf

The Hidden Histories of Houseplants explores 20 of the world’s most common houseplants. This book isn’t just a dry exploration of historical cultivation; the narrative explores the plants’ places in social history, science and culture, showcasing the most fascinating elements of each plant’s story, be it the exploration as to why Monstera deliciosa have holes in their leaves, whether houseplants have the ability to count, or why Calathea leaves open during the day and close up at night. Accompanied by stunning illustrations, each text takes the reader on a journey through time, history and culture, told by the most universally binding objects in our homes from London to Beijing – houseplants.

Author : Maddie Bailey,Alice Bailey
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781784884185

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The Green Indoors by Maddie Bailey,Alice Bailey Pdf

The Green Indoors is a useful guide on how to find perfect plant matches for your home environments with a sustainable and innovative approach. Focussing on working with the plants you already own, the book is divided in chapters detailing all the possible conditions: Extreme Sun/Heat, Dry Air/Central Heating, Deep Shade, High Humidity, Draughty, Cold. By matching awkward spaces in your home with environments in the natural world, this book shows you how to relocate plants to improve their growth and help them thrive. Features an extensive section with informative plant profiles that include their origin, easy-to-follow tips on feeding and watering, optimum conditions, prospective growth, and is concluded by a helpful troubleshooting chapter dealing with common problems, and what to try when all hope is lost.

Author : Catherine Horwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910258946

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Potted History by Catherine Horwood Pdf

In this fascinating book we learned how potted plants are as much subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For the Victorians, it was the aspidistra in the front parlour, the Edwardians loved a palm, and, for today's millennials, no home is complete without the ubiquitous fiddle-leaf fig. This book show that there is little new when it comes to plants in the home. In the mid-18th century, Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and in the 1950s, some of Terence Conran's earliest designs were for houseplant containers. Across the ages, the choice of potted plants has been influenced by the layout of houses, the levels of dirt and pollution and the equipment to hand. Now, with so much choice, we seem happy to treat houseplants as disposables. This book gives a better understanding of the miracles that were once achieved with indoor plant displays, inspired by Sir Hugh Platt's 1608 vision of a garden 'within doores'. This new edition has been revised with new material added to bring the history of the houseplant and its massive explosion in popularity right up to date.

Author : Caro Langton,Rose Ray,Ro Co
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781787133051

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Root, Nurture, Grow by Caro Langton,Rose Ray,Ro Co Pdf

Life with a potted plant is undeniably better. And better yet is the ability to grow and replicate new, healthy houseplants without ever having to visit a garden centre again. Learn to share, swap and celebrate the miraculous methods of multiplying all of your favourites at almost no cost at all. And here’s the secret: it’s really, really easy. Plants are designed to multiply. They spread their roots, send off inquisitive shoots, and regenerate themselves in all sorts of exciting and unexpected ways without any help. Even for the beginner indoor gardener, a single leaf can hold enough life to be successfully grown into a brand new plant. With Root, Nurture, Grow, you’ll quickly discover how to propagate any houseplant, take cuttings, cultivate runners and offsets, divide plants at the roots and even grow brand new root systems in the air. You’ll learn pruning methods that produce no waste, organic rooting medium recipes, and eventually enjoy gifting and swapping newly grown greenery with friends, family and other houseplant hoarders you’ll meet along the way. As well as myriad propagation methods, the book includes practical DIY projects to better nurture and display your plant family, including a homemade propagation chamber and simple self-watering planters.

Author : Peter Tompkins,Christopher Bird
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780062874429

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The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins,Christopher Bird Pdf

Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestseller. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants. Now available in a new edition, The Secret Life of Plants explores plants' response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants' surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their creative powers, and much more. Tompkins and Bird's classic book affirms the depth of humanity's relationship with nature and adds special urgency to the cause of protecting the environment that nourishes us.

Author : Sonya Patel Ellis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781667200071

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The Modern Gardener by Sonya Patel Ellis Pdf

This informative guide to selecting, potting, and tending to all types of plants will give your home a trendy, modern appeal. The Modern Gardener will help you give your home a chic, modern aesthetic with the right plants—indoors and out. With sections devoted to choosing the right plants, budgeting, and making the best use of your available space, you’ll be able to transform your home into a sanctuary for the plants that will give it an appealing vibe. Chapters on tending to all sorts of plants—including annuals, perennials, herbs, flowers, and edibles—make this a handy how-to guide for beginner and experienced gardeners alike. Using a little TLC and the many helpful tips in this book, your home will be blooming with life in no time.

Author : Corrie Beth Hogg
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781604698916

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Handmade Houseplants by Corrie Beth Hogg Pdf

One of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2018 In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water option for your urban jungle: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions and templates for making 30 of the most popular houseplants, from monstera and peperomia to fiddle leaf fig and philodendron. Additional projects show how to use paper plants for home décor, wall art, holiday decorations, gift giving, and more. The projects are simple enough to be made in few hours and the materials are affordable and easy to find. Packed with colorful photos and filled with inspiration, Handmade Houseplants shows how paper plants can provide a modern, light-hearted touch to a well-designed home.

Author : Craig Miller-Randle
Publisher : Plum
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781760989026

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Green Thumb by Craig Miller-Randle Pdf

No one is born with a green thumb ... but anyone can grow one! Renowned indoor 'plantspert' Craig Miller-Randle takes you through the basics of helping indoor plants to thrive. Green Thumb is filled with advice that Craig has distilled in his 40+ years of experience. Whether it's choosing the right pot, propagating, watering or getting rid of pests, Craig has all the info you'll need. There are also photographic step-by-step projects, an A-Z guide to the care of indoor plants and loads of styling inspiration. You may think you're a born plant killer, but with Craig's guidance and techniques, you can grow lush, healthy and envy-worthy specimens to fill your home. Maybe you're at the beginning of your love affair with plants, perhaps you're already a collector of rare species or have a home full of plant pets ... whatever stage you are at, Green Thumb will help you select, care for and propagate plants with ease to grow your own lush indoor jungle. Chapters include: · Why grow indoor plants? · Plant A-Z · Potting, soil and containers · Location and light · Water and fertiliser · Temperature and humidity · Pests, diseases and troubleshooting · Styling · Propagating, totems and training This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Author : Mark E. Dixon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625841766

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The Hidden History of Chester County: Lost Tales from the Delaware and Brandywine Valleys by Mark E. Dixon Pdf

On an Oxford bound train in 1866 Mary Miles refused to move to the 'blacks-only' section, eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks' famous ride. Eight years later in a West Chester courtroom photographic evidence was used for the first time. Soon after that the hills of Westtown became the testing grounds for the Flexible Flyer, America's original steerable sled. These are among the extraordinary stories too often lost to Chester County's history. From the humorous tale of the goat that ate a stick of dynamite to Ann Preston, M.D., leading her female medical students through a mob of enraged men, author Mark Dixon is sure to please with this beguiling collection of vignettes.

Author : Richard H. Schneider,Dick Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0687453631

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Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect by Richard H. Schneider,Dick Schneider Pdf

Even though its kind sacrifices for the animals of the forest have marred the perfection of its shape, Small Pine is selected to be the Christmas tree in the Queen's castle, demonstrating that living for the sake of others makes us most beautiful in the eyes of God.

Author : Zia Allaway,Fran Bailey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780744034615

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Practical Houseplant Book by Zia Allaway,Fran Bailey Pdf

Twelve inspiring projects, plus 200 in-depth plant profiles with detailed useful information and care instructions to help you cultivate and care for your houseplants. Learn how to choose which plants to use where, care for your houseplants to keep them healthy, and use plants to best effect in your home, with trusted advice, creative inspiration, strong visual aesthetic, and practical step-by-step detail. Two hundred plant profiles provide information and care instructions for a wide variety of plants, including ferns, orchids, and succulents, while a dozen step-by-step photographic projects offer exciting ideas for using plants to decorate your home or greenhouse--from eye-catching terrariums to a living succulent wall to a floating kokedama "string garden." With information on plant care, propagation, pests and diseases, pruning, and problem-solving, The Practical Houseplant Book is the essential guide for indoor gardeners.

Author : David Domoney
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780241523285

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My House Plant Changed My Life by David Domoney Pdf

Use the power of the humble house plant to combat the stresses of modern life! Succulents and indoor house plants may seem extra trendy right now, but these plants have more benefits than simply looking beautiful. Everyday products pollute the air in our homes and our mental wellbeing is threatened like never before. This gardening book reveals the best life-enhancing houseplants that can reduce stress, fight fatigue, and even lower your blood sugar. Winning Gold for the accompanying exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021, My Houseplant Changed My Life draws on groundbreaking research, profiling the best air-purifying plants you can put in your home to reduce pollutant gases, particulates, and volatile compounds. Discover how these indoor plants can actively clean the air and improve your mental health through their colours, scent, habit, and nurturing needs. Explore how having leafy companions can help to unlock your potential: - Profiles of the 50 top air-purifying and mood-enhancing plants - Easy-to-follow advice and expert tips from David Domoney, award-winning horticulturalist - Informative text highlights the natural wonder of each plant - Feature spreads show plant combinations to enhance your mood in different ways - Step-by-step demonstrations of essential care techniques Packed with expert advice, this book will equip you with everything you need to keep your plants thriving. It also highlights mindful ways to nurture and increase your green guests: by misting, wiping, feeding, pinching, pruning, and propagating. Discover the Power of Nature The ideal gift for your green-fingered friends, this book is perfect for urbanites with little or no outdoor space who want to increase the amount of greenery in their life.

Author : Sally Nixon
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781452163338

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Houseplants and Hot Sauce by Sally Nixon Pdf

This cheeky seek and find features illustrated scenes from the life of a modern gal—from brunch with friends to shopping for succulents—with clever and funny challenges on every page. Lenny Letter contributor Sally Nixon combines the nostalgia of visual puzzles with smart, contemporary content for a fresh and charming ebook.

Author : JANE. PERRONE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800182007

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LEGENDS OF THE LEAF by JANE. PERRONE Pdf

Author : Lauren Camilleri,Sophia Kaplan
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781925811773

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Plantopedia by Lauren Camilleri,Sophia Kaplan Pdf

This is the definitive text for potting, maintaining, and loving your houseplants. Houseplants have the power to transform any room. With their lush foliage and structural beauty, they help create indoor oases that bring a sense of tranquility to our busy lives. Fostering a connection to plants has many positive implications for us and our environment by strengthening our relationship with the natural world. In Plantopedia, Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan from Leaf Supply present the definitive guide to keeping happy, healthy houseplants in any space. Featuring: More than 130 plant profiles including foliage plants, succulents and cacti, as well as rarer gems of the plant world. Detailed care information including troubleshooting tips and tricks to ensure that your houseplants thrive. Plants for all levels of indoor gardeners, from budding novices to green thumbs and beyond.