Simon and Schuster's Guide to Houseplants

by Alessandro Chuisoli and Maria L. Boriani

Book Overview

Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants is the definitive guide to selecting the right plants for your indoor environment and making them flourish. The introductory chapter explains how plants grow;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671632183
• ISBN13: 9780671632182
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Simon & Shuster's Guide To House Plants

The content of the book was helpful. Would recommend to anyone that is interested in house plants.

Great book, the first I got as a brown-thumb!

+AH4-Yes you read it right, I'm a former brown-thumb, never had any luck with plants. Eventually I learned they key, patience, practice and a good identifying and how-to book or two. If I can do it, then anyone can and this book is great, it details each plant in full color with care, propagation, species, family, description, varieties and possible pests and diseases each particular plant is prone to. The nice thing it that it is a small pocket-sized book that you can flip through easily or take+AH4-+AH4- to the nursery or home improvement store with you, no searching through tons of verbage, it's right there. My copy is quite tagged and dog-eared! Since the common and folk names are given and indexed it's so easy to find a plant you don't know the official name for. The pictures are wonderful for those times you are given or buy a plant with no identifying markers to know what it is. I have identified and learned to care for quite a few "mystery plants" by finding them using just the+AH4-+AH4- pictures in this book. My plants all look great and this is the only book I use since it has it all, from start to finish, simply and concisely. A great guide overall, it may not have absolutely every houseplant under the sun (or window) but it has a lot, all the popular and readily-available ones and more than I will likely ever have.+AH4-