Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants

by Ellen Zachos

Original and unique, this guide to luscious, choice indoor plants will convert anyone to a passion for gardening indoors. The possibilities presented are dazzling — lush flowering vines or petite carnivorous plants, intoxicating fragrant jasmine or spiky sculptural succulents. Included are chapters on sustenance, container choices, light, water and temperature requirements, propagation, pests and diseases, even how to summer plants outdoors and travel with them on holidays. Over 200 gorgeous color photographs round out the detailed descriptions of 175 choice plants native to both tropical and temperate regions. In her entertaining style, plant fanatic Ellen Zachos invites everyone, from the horticulturally clueless to the avidly addicted, to share her passion for exotic and unusual indoor plants.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening, Plants

328 pages, Hardcover

First published October 6, 2005

About the author

A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College, Ms. Zachos resides in New York.

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many plants in here that I hadn't heard of before, and now I want. Like parachute plants!!

[Patrice Lindstrom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not enough photos. Some useful information.