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The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants
The art and science to grow your own house plants
Series: Kew Experts
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This book is ideal for plant enthusiasts of all levels, from beginners wanting to choose the right house plants to seasoned gardeners seeking new projects and care techniques. It suits anyone interested in enhancing their home environment with greenery and botanical beauty.
The Kew Growing House Plants is an illustrated guide to the most trendy and popular indoor plants with advice on choosing, growing, styling, projects and propagation.
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Which are delicate and which indestructible? We show how to find the right home for your plants and the right plants for your home.
The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants is a beautifully illustrated, giftable gardening reference book, combining exquisite botanical illustrations with practical indoor projects. Readers can discover over 70 life-changing plants and 12 home-transforming projects.
Each project is described and illustrated with step-by-step photographs. Starting from the premise that we want to show how to grow the right plant in the right place, we demonstrate the benefits of all common house plants and how to care for and curate them in the home.
Includes cacti, succulents, bromeliads including air plants, foliage house plants, flowering house plants, and house plants for scent and air freshening.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780711240001
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 March 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Edition: Illustrated Edition
Illustration: colour
Contributors:
- By Jason Ingram
- By Jason Ingram
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens has built a global resource for medicinal plant names that enables health professionals and researchers to access information about plants and plant products relevant to pharmacological research, health regulation, traditional medicine and functional foods.
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