Doctor Houseplant: An Indispensible Guide to Keeping Your Houseplants Happy and Healthy

Product Description

Doctor Houseplant
provides all you need to know about the maintenance and care of your favorite houseplants.

Introduce gorgeous greenery into your apartment or home with houseplants. As well as being affordable and easy to transport if you move, nothing helps more to
instantly create a lively and inviting interior than houseplants. You can start small and build a plant collection as your confidence develops.

To care for your collection, you’ll need to take into consideration
every plant’s individual needs. While some plants are easy to care for—particularly cacti, succulents, and snake plants (
Sansevieria trifasciata)—some of the most spectacular may need a little extra love.

This comprehensive guide to houseplants covers
42 of the most popular houseplants, with all the information you need to help them thrive, including
ideal conditions and
common concerns, as well as the plant’s common names and the varieties available.

Nurture healthy, happy plants with
techniques for:

Choosing and buying
Watering and feeding
Light and position
Compost and potting
Dealing with pests and diseases
Solutions tailored by symptoms
Find
complete growing guidance for: the urn plant, Chinese evergreen, anthurium, cast iron plant, azalea, begonia, bulbs and corms, cacti and succulents, peacock plant, spider plant, grape ivy, croton, cyclamen, umbrella plant, dumb cane, dracaena, poinsettia, ferns, ficus, mosaic plant, ivy, dwarf umbrella tree, herbs, wax plant, jasmine, swiss cheese plant, banana plant, orchid, palms, geranium, radiator plant, philodendron, Chinese money plant, snake plant, holiday cactus, devil’s ivy, African hemp, peace lily, Madagascar jasmine, arrowhead vine, inch plant, and yucca cane.

With extensive care charts that serve as a vital reference tool,
photographs of damaged leaves or flowers
that help you identify specific problems, and photography
showing the life and beauty that plants bring to a home, this guide is your key to thriving houseplants.

About the Author

William Davidson is one of the world’s leading authorities on houseplants and has written extensively on the subject. He also lectures and broadcasts on radio and television in the United Kingdom and the United States.