The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family

By Darryl Cheng

Book Overview

For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng's New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family offers a new way to grow healthy house plants.

"While this book does cover how to care for and propagate plants, its real value comes from helping readers understand the whys behind plant care. By learning to care for a plant holistically, and tapping into how each plant would grow in nature, you'll be able to raise happier, healthier plants." --Growfully

The creator of House Plant Journal teaches the art of understanding a plant's needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower relying on observation and insight.

And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all the basics of growing house plants: Finding the right lightWatering FertilizingContainersPruning and propagationPestsHelpful toolsRecommended speciesAnd more
Cheng writes, "My goal in writing this book is to empower you to understand your home's growing conditions, to be observant, and to accept what nature has in store. . . . I want to help you break away from old habits and ways of thinking that hinder you from truly enjoying plant parenthood."

Cheng's friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for thousands of indoor gardeners.

Includes Color Photographs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419732390
• ISBN13: 9781419732393
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Honest Review

This book is GREAT. Its perfect for people like me who are indeed new plant parents lol. I love that its split in parts. Where you are learning about the all around care and nuturing of the plant in part 1. And part 2 are detailed info and care plan for a list of plants. However i found the plant selections he talked about a little limited. For example, yes he talked about Monsteras but it was only the monstera deliciosa. I wish he had shown more of the different kind like my fav (monstera adonsonii) And sure maybe the info is applicable to all monstera plants but I just wanted to see more variations like he did for pothos. But idk Im just being picky. It was still helpful because I have two pothos plants. It does the job of being great for a beginner!