Growing Healthy Houseplants: Choose the Right Plant, Water Wisely, and Control Pests. A Storey BASICS® Title
Ebook
Overview
This concise Storey BASICS® guide teaches novice gardeners how to successfully keep indoor plants beautiful and healthy. Learn how to choose the best plants for your home and what each species needs in terms of location, water, sunlight, and fertilizer. Covering the basics of repotting, pruning, and dealing with pests, Ellen Zachos shows you how to keep your houseplants looking vibrant for years to come. Soon, you’ll be watching over a collection of thriving plants that add a lively dose of color to your home.
Introduction: Learn to Speak Plant
Part One: Essentials
- Light: How Much is Enough?
- Water and Humidity: Getting It Right
- The Growing Medium
- Fertilization: More Isn’t Always Better
- Cool Tools You’ll Need
- Repotting: It Has to Happen Sometime
- Good Grooming
- Propagation: Making More Plants
- Vacation for You, Vacation for Your Plants
- Managing Pests
- Diseases
Part Three: Designing the Indoor Garden
- It’s All in the Display
- Foilage
- Flowering Plants
- Trees
- Cacti
Index
- Title: Growing Healthy Houseplants: Choose the Right Plant, Water Wisely, and Control Pests. A Storey BASICS® Title
- Author: Ellen Zachos
- Series: Storey Basics
- Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781612124414, 9781612124407, 1612124402, 1612124410
- Resource ID: LLS:9781612124414
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T07:18:20Z
Ellen Zachos is an expert forager and longtime foraging instructor. She is the author of six books, including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging. She is co-host of the Plantrama podcast and can be found online at backyardforager.com.