The Complete Book of House Plants: A Practical Guide to Selecting and Caring for Houseplants

by John Evans

Book Overview

An easy-to-read and comprehensive guide to raising indoor plants offers information on 175 houseplants, with a full-page entry for each plant that includes a description, a photograph, and advice on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670858684
• ISBN13: 9780670858682
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.9" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Very useful reference book!

This book has a short "introductory" section that goes over the basics. I've seen a number of books that have more general information than this one. However, I think this book does an outstanding job of giving very specific information on each plant in its listing of 100+ plants. Each listing shows a color photo or drawing of a typical specimen. At the top of each listing is a rating from "Very Easy" to "Very Difficult" on the difficulty of caring for this plant. This can be very useful when selecting plants. (It also makes me feel better when I look up a plant that just croaked and found that other people don't have much luck with it either!) Another handy bit of information is the section on "Problems". Each plant listing has a "Problem" section that includes more than just pest problems, but issues like overwatering, light issues, etc. When I get a new plant I like to look it up here so I know what I'm getting into. This is definitely a great book to have on hand if you have a number of houseplants.

A Wonderful Book

This is the most easy to read & comprehend book about houseplants that I've ever seen. Each plant is shown in color and rated on an very easy - very difficult basis, which is extra important when deciding on which plants to purchase. The book tells you commom problems of each plant and tips & hints on how to care for them. I check with this book before I purchase ANY plant!A must buy for the houseplant lover!

We now have plants that are thriving!

Before this book, the few plants we had were just barely surviving. Plants received as gifts invaribly died. It was horrible.Then we got this book. We have filled our house with a variety of planets and our plants are doing extremely well. We now give cuttings and detailed care instructions to other people who love plants. Evans' book is very easy to use, it is an extremely attractive book with a color photo of each plant, and we consult it all of the time both as a reference and as guide to which plants we would like to add to the house. It is a pleasure just leafing through this book!

Great pictures, clear, informative, specific

Equipped with beautiful color photographs and clearly written text. Specific care and problem info boxes are provided for each plant, each of which is listed by both Latin and common names.