The Green Indoors is a useful guide on how to find perfect plant matches for your home environments with a sustainable and innovative approach.
Focussing on working with the plants you already own, the book is divided in chapters detailing all the possible conditions: Extreme Sun/Heat, Dry Air/Central Heating, Deep Shade, High Humidity, Draughty, Cold.
By matching awkward spaces in your home with environments in the natural world, this book shows you how to relocate plants to improve their growth and help them thrive.
Features an extensive section with informative plant profiles that include their origin, easy-to-follow tips on feeding and watering, optimum conditions, prospective growth, and is concluded by a helpful troubleshooting chapter dealing with common problems, and what to try when all hope is lost.
By matching awkward spaces in your home with environments in the natural world, this is here to show you how you and your home can find the perfect plant matches. Broken down by types of space, each chapter compares the area to the relevant climate. A selection of plants that suit are then profiled, including mini maps to indicate origin, easy-to-follow tips on feeding and watering, optimum conditions, prospective growth and of course, stunning photography and illustration. A troubleshooting chapter deals with common problems, and what to try all hope is lost.
Full of gorgeous photography, illustrations, tricks and tips, the book is a godsend for those who fear that where houseplants are concerned, they are the grim reaper.
