Houseplants

Houseplants is a comprehensive and giftable guide to choosing, growing, and caring for houseplants and includes how-to-plant information; growing tips; watering, location, and light information; and more than 100 species recommendations.

Whats the best way to nurture your green thumb when you don't have a yard or space? Houseplants! Now available in a fun gift version, this is the 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! Offers complete information on the most popular varieties of houseplants along with details on maintenance, care and know-how so you can easily select the best plants for your lifestyle and space.

Join the millions of house-plant-loving enthusiasts in this 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, all illustrated in beautiful four-color photos.

About the Author

Lisa Eldred Steinkopf is The Houseplant Guru, who features all things houseplants on her blog. She has written for Real Simple magazine, Michigan Gardener Magazine, the houseplant section of Allan Armitage's Greatest Perennials and Annuals app, and Michigan Gardening Magazine, where she writes a monthly column. She worked for more than a decade at Steinkopf Nursery as the Annuals and Houseplants Manager, and has been interviewed online, in print, and on TV about houseplants. She harbors well over 1,000 houseplants in her home.