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Urban Botanics

An Indoor Plant Guide for Modern Gardeners
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Urban Botanics by Emma Sibley is a beautifully illustrated guide celebrating easy-to-care-for plants perfect for city living. Featuring 70 plants from around the globe, each entry combines Maaike Koster's stunning artwork with insightful text on origins, care tips, and related species. This collection makes indoor gardening accessible to all, even without a garden, brightening homes and workplaces with succulents, cacti, flowering, and foliage plants.
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Ideal for urban dwellers, beginner gardeners, and art enthusiasts who appreciate detailed botanical illustration alongside practical advice for modern lifestyles.

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A stunning collection of indoor plants, including: flowering, cacti, succulents and foliage - with stunning illustrations and authoritative text.

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Driven by the beautiful artwork of Maaike Koster (illustrator and interior designer), alongside Emma Sibley's (founder of UK-based London Terrariums) text, this collection of stunning illustrations is accompanied by thoughtful information. Each plant is rendered in considered detail, facing a paragraph on its origins, care tips, and any information about fellow species.

The joy of these plants is that they are easy to maintain, and everyone has access to themβ€”you no longer need to have a back garden to turn your hand to this green-fingered pastime. Succulents, cacti, flowering, and foliage plants are growing everywhere; in our homes, workplaces, bars, and shops. Their ubiquity adds interest, tranquillity, and colour in every corner of our lives.

Across 70 different plants, originating from every corner of the world, Maaike and Emma have collected a wide variety to tempt even the most timid of gardeners. For those with a full-time job along with everything else, Urban Botanics is made to fit alongside our modern-day schedules. Even if the closest you ever get to one of these plants is turning these pages, you will find much to admire and inspire in the striking illustrations.

A must for lovers of art and verdant foliage alike.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781316535

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 September 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Illustration: 75 colour illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Maaike Koster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

About the Author

MAAIKE KOSTER is a Dutch graphic designer and interior designer. She has set up My Deer Art Shop where she can express her inexhaustible passion for her profession, transforming ideas into inspiring concepts and amazing designs.
EMMA SIBLEY is co-founder of London Terrariums, which began out of a sincere desire to engage with nature in the urban environment. These comprehensive workshops pass on the knowledge and deep fascination with how plants behave and the exciting part terrariums play in the history of horticulture.

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