Happy Houseplants: 30 Lovely Varieties to Brighten Up Your Home

by Angela Staehling

Overview

Enhance your home décor with this guide to choosing and caring for indoor plants, with information on thirty common, easy-to-grow varieties.
 
For anyone who has longed for a garden of their own—whether a city dweller or one with less-than-green thumbs—this is a handy little guide to growing and maintaining houseplants. Cheerful and informative, Happy Houseplants will guide any budding indoor botanist through a bevy of topics, from soil and water to light and fertilizer. With beautiful illustrations accompanying thirty different profiles of plants, from the easygoing Air Plant to the striking Zebra Cactus, this nifty book is the perfect gift for anyone looking to bring a piece of the outdoors inside.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452163079
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	06/22/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Angela Staehling is a designer of home décor and gift products as well as an avid gardener and illustrator. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Getting Started 13

Tools

Gloves 14

Hand Tools 16

Pruning Tools 18

Watering Containers 20

Materials

Fertilizer 22

Pots and Containers 23

Potting Mixes 27

The Happy Houseplants 31

African Violet 32

Air Plant 34

Aloe Vera 36

Amaryllis 38

Blue Chalk Sticks 40

Burro's Tail Cactus 42

Chili Pepper Plant 44

Cushion Moss 46

Desert Rose 48

Fairy Castle Cactus 50

False Shamrock 52

Firestick Cactus 54

Foxtail Fern 56

Grape Hyacinth 58

Hen and Chicks 60

Jade Plant 62

Jasmine 64

Lemon Button Fern 66

Lily of the Valley 68

Lucky Bamboo 70

Maidenhair Fern 72

Moon Cactus 74

Paperwhites 76

Ponytail Palm 78

Prickly Pear 80

Silver Vase Plant 82

Snake Plant 84

String of Pearls 86

Tulip 88

Zebra Cactus 90

Resources 93

Acknowledgments 96