Staying Alive
Autor Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeauen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2025
A handy Q&A guide by the authors of the Prairie Gardener series, Staying Alive: The Go-To Guide for Houseplants provides expert advice to ensure your houseplants thrive, wherever you call home.
Whether you have one tiny succulent on your desk at work or a massive collection of tropical plants in your home, caring for houseplants can be a real source of joy-and the occasional moment of wild frustration.
In this Q&A guide to happy, healthy houseplants, lifelong gardeners Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose are here with the insight you need to take you from perusing the plant shop to the dreaded repotting to splitting your mama spider into little spidies to share with friends. Learn:
- How to choose the right plants for your space (from aloe to ZZ)
- How to train vines
- How to create and care for a terrarium
- When to repot your plants
- All about tap water, rainwater, distilled water, too much water, and not enough
- Perfecting your potting soil
- Dividing, repotting, and growing plants from seed
- How to tackle problems like flies, fungus, spots, and even general malaise
Opening with a chapter on setting up a houseplant-friendly home, the pair talk containers, lighting, watering, soil and nutrients, propagation, pests and other problems, and offer a final grab bag of tips to help you satisfy some of those trickier plant pals in your midst (calling all orchids).
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1771514574
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 145 x 221 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: HERITAGE GROUP DISTRIBUTION
Notă biografică
Janet Melrose is the co-author of the Guides for the Prairie Gardener series. She is a garden educator and consultant, and an advocate for Calgary's Sustainable Local Food System. She is a life-long gardener and holds a Prairie Horticulture Certificate and Home Farm Horticultural Therapy Certificate. She has a passion for Horticultural Therapy and facilitates numerous programs designed to integrate people marginalized by various disabilities into the larger community. She is a regular contributor to The Gardener for Canadian Climates magazine. She lives in Calgary where she runs her education and consulting company, Calgary's Cottage Gardener.
Cuprins
Introduction
Rooms to Grow: Designing with Houseplants
Home, Sweet Home: Choosing the Right Containers
Light, Water, Action!
Hold Me, Feed Me, Love Me: Growing Mediums and Nutrients
Propagation Preparation
Righting the Wrongs: Dealing with Pests, Diseases, and Environmental Problems
Let’s Get Down to Specifics: More Tips for Success
Acknowledgements
Notes
Sources
Index