Easy-Care Guide to Houseplants

by Jack Kramer

For beginner to expert gardener, award winning author Jack Kramer offers practical advice and trade secrets in Easy-Care Guide to Houseplants . This book provides all readers need for success with nearly 200 of the most popular houseplants grown in North America. Part 1 introduces the types of houseplants and their origins, and then explains selection and care. Part II showcases individual plants and describes their needs. Illustrating this authoritative guide are 500 full-color photos and drawings-many of them showing procedures step-by-step.

Genres: Gardening

191 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 1999

About the author

Jack Kramer is one of America's foremost gardening experts with more than 100 books to his credit. For eight years he wrote a syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the best-selling 1000 Beautiful Houseplants and Your Homemade Greenhouse. He lives in and Naples, Florida.

Reviews

[Sarah]

This was everything I wanted the "Plantopedia" book to be, right down to the layout.

The start of the book has some general plants and information, then refers you to the section further in that covers the genus of said plant where is gives more details on how to care for the plant, including but not limited to, soil type, sunlight needs, natural environment info, water needs, etc.

My only wish is that this book was larger, covering more plants and a bit more info. But this is a good starting point for plant info!

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[Mark Fallon]

Not ideal for anyone who doesn't live in a large house, but I picked up some good ideas.

[Bonnie Burton]

I picked up Jack Kramer's book "Easy-Care Guide to Houseplants" at an Ace Hardware store when I was first attempting to grow some other houseplants besides the unkillable Devil's Ivy. As far as your basic guide to plant care goes, this is the stuff. I'm constantly thumbing through it when I need to figure out which plants would thrive best in a dark bedroom or a bright kitchen. Plus the photos are simply beautiful.

Some of the highlights of the book include decorating with plants, choosing houseplants, growing herbs inside, picking the right containers, raising and grooming, propagating and understanding plant problems. This handy book also gives you step-by-step instructions on how to build your own knockdown growing stand.