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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

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There are plant enthusiasts, too, who bring in “good bugs” for their plants, like plant YouTuber Summer Rayne Owens.

Survival tips for the horticulturally challenged How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow.

Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, learn to spot the danger signs and how to take the proper action to rescue your sick plant.

It's fair to say your placement choices need work because you've just given a lethal bout of sunburn to your plant and no amount of aftersun lotion is fixing this boo boo. The year was 2015, and I was head over heels, completely obsessed with House of Hackney’s Palmeral wallpaper. I really like the illustrations of specific diseases and issues on every page of the plant reference section. Learn to spot the danger signs and how to rescue an unhealthy plant, and follow easy advice to pick the top plants for your bathroom, cold rooms, desk, and windowsill to create your own indoor oasis. The left margin has straightforward information on “how NOT to kill it”, including: location, light, watering + feeding, and care.

Because it covers so many different plants, it can't go as in depth on each plant as I would have liked, and a lot of tips are repeated with every single plant so it does get a bit repetitive, but it does the job! Don’t be afraid to start with an “easier” plant, like a succulent, lavender, aloe, cacti, spider plant, or my fave easy plant, the Heart leaf Philodendron. For a south- or west-facing space with bright indirect light, choose tropical plants; for anywhere with low light, ferns and vines will be happy. Really detailed and thorough book, with detailed tips on how to make sure every type of houseplant survives!

How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is aimed towards newbies, but it also included tricks that were new to me, such as how to save an overwatered plant by wrapping its soil in newspaper. From identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow, this is your guide to creating an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants. Veronica Peerless' How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is the ultimate guide to growing plants indoors, featuring helpful growing tips for 119 houseplants. Water your plant as usual and you’ll see how any excess water escapes through the drainage holes at the bottom of your pot. Please note that some countries may charge the recipient duties on the 'import' of parcels from time-to-time.Detailed spreads on popular and well-adapted indoor plants follow, with occasional lists ("Top 5 Plants for Your Bathroom"; "Top 5 Plants for Your Desk") featured throughout.

Keep pests away Pests like spider mites, mealybugs, and scale insects can wreak havoc on your plants. Dotted throughout the plant profiles are suggestions for locations such as the desk, sunny spots, bathrooms, etc. However this is still one of those random rare things that should only happen by accident, perhaps a one time overdose, for example, you didn't dilute the concentration and accidentally poured it into the soil neat. If your home doesn't allow for a ton of natural lighting consider choosing a plant that thrives in low or indirect lighting. Our water in Tucson is extremely hard, so when I switched to Berkey filtered water for the leaves, the plants started to look much healthier.A really excellent how-to guide for houseplants, possibly the best book on the topic I've ever seen. I found thrips on one of my houseplants, really need to get rid otherwise it will spread to the other plants and they might die. Plants are on trend, and it’s little wonder considering they brighten up our homes, add a sense of style and even purify our air. I really like the "hook" of "how not to kill it," which was funny and very relatable (as someone with a history of killing plants--accidentally, of course! Make sure the drip tray (or whatever you are using to prevent damage to the surface underneath the pot) isn't still filled with liquid an hour after you've watered.

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