A Beginner's Guide to House Plants: Creating Beautiful and Healthy Green Spaces in Your Home

by Ryusuke Sakaino

The healthier your plants, the happier you'll feel!

A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment.

In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips,
Cultivating house plants can be both creative and fun! Plant expert Ryusuke Sakaino provides tips on how to use colors, textures, patterns and shapes to create a lush living space, with one plant or many. His gorgeous photos will inspire you to add greenery to every room in your home and office. No longer just a pandemic hobby, plants deserve to be a permanent part of your lifestyle!

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening, Plants, Horticulture

192 pages, Hardcover

Published August 23, 2022

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I put post it notes all through my library book of plants I wanted to acquire. It's time to return the book and I need to record all the plant names somewhere. So Ashley here ya go:
Ficus elastica cv. 'Apollo' aka Apollo rubber tree
Agave potatorum 'Kisshoukan' aka Potatorum
Asparagus macowanii aka Asparagus myriocladus
Asplenium 'Cobra'
Aloe suprafoliata
Aloe hybrid FLAMINGO
Anthurium radicans
Licuala grandis
Aeschynanthus marmoratus
Gasteraloe 'Green Ice'
Calathea orbifolia
Crassula undulata
Cordyline fruticosa 'New Guinea Fan'
Sansevieria kirkii 'Silver Blue'
Sansevieria hyb. (gracilis x parva) 'kib wedge'
Sansevieria ehrenbergii 'Banana'
Schefflera elliptica
Seidenfadenia mitrata
Dischidia nummularia variegata
Dischidia formosana (Heart Jewelry)
Dracaena burley
Dracaena hookeriana cv. 'Rothiana'
Neoregelia Lila
Platycerium alcicorne var.Madagascar aka elkhorn fern
Platycerium willinckii aka elkhorn fern
Platycerium veitchii aka elkhorn fern
Platycerium ridleyi aka elkhorn fern
Hydnophytum papuanum aka maze plant, ant plant
Ficus elastica 'Jin'
Ficus benghalensis
Philodendron andreanum aka velvet kadsura
Philodendron grazielae
Philodendron billietiae
Vriesea fosteriana 'Red Chestnut'
Protea Juliet
Heteropanax fragrans
Bombax ellipticum

[Kaylah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful tips on how to raise plants. However, seeing as the book is written by someone in Japan and translated, I'm not sure the plants mentioned are all available in America.

[V Dixon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe it is me but the house plants I consider abundant are different than those highlighted by the author this book. Of course I am not British and do not reside in England. Despite this, there are some useful hints and good information. I am not a horrible plant person nor am I an overly green person, I recognize that care is required to keep any living item alive.
I recommend using this book for information and applying it accordingly. This book did offer opportunity for discovery for me as I saw some plants that intrigued me (maybe I will look for a small version of some of them). There are also some plants that are easy to find or at least they look familiar but plants can be tricky so many are similar but not the same.
Kudos to the author and publisher who used color photos for each step for plants as well as care items such as watering cans. I am biased towards how to books that use real pictures in color.

[Maddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Big thanks to NewSouthBooks for sending me this book for review! I found this to be quite a good read, mostly the parts surrounding placing plants of different heights together, but it definitely didn't provide as big of a variety of plants as I was expecting it to.

[Mary Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a translation of a Japanese title and therefore has a different spin on the topic which was refreshing. I enjoyed the descriptions of different types of plants which are not as common in the US as well as the photographs of plant decor in “real” homes. Perhaps not recommended as a first guide or introduction to houseplants but a really great supplement, particularly for more experienced house plant gardeners.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent primer that makes a great coffee table book as well. Gives you just enough information to get started with houseplants without becoming overwhelming.

Tips, species, and projects are carefully curated.
Even an advanced gardener can learn something from reading this book.

While I have already done much of what this book covers, the photos were lovely. I also learned more about Elkhorn Ferns!

Recommended.

(Checked out the hardcover version from Austin Public Library, Spring 2023)

[Yeetboy4000 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Useful for arranging plants, and useful information for *some* types of houseplants, but really only rare ones. Not as wide a variety of plants as I had hoped; particularly did not focus on a lot of common houseplants, which is surprising as this is a book for beginners. I thought the art and design elements were fantastic though and I do feel like it solidified my knowledge about plants and the best ways to care for them.

[Erica · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely looking book on how to care for various house plants. I'm pretty sure this is translated from Japanese as it has a very Japanese aesthetic and it recommends Japanese businesses for the plants and pots. I loved the idea for a moss terrarium! So cute! And the lovely pictures kept me turning the pages.

[Lablover · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you really want to learn about how to care for house plants, this is not the book you want. I already know quite a bit about plants but am always looking for new information, tips etc. This book is about ways to decorate with plants. If you need help figuring out how to best display plants to make your home visually appealing, then this is the kind of book you're looking for.

[Kelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is just ok. It was really neat to look at all the pictures of all the different plants on display, but only the basics of plant care is covered. It was just lacking a lot of information in my opinion. It is more of a “fluff” book.

[Cloay · Rating 3 out of 5]

- available in SG NLB 635.965 (Sengkang

[Jessica Geil · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was very informative. I love reading about plants and plant care! 🪴💖

[Glowfly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good advice there but not our plants types.