Description
The Green Indoors is a useful guide on how to find perfect plant matches for your home environments with a sustainable and innovative approach.
Focussing on working with the plants you already own, the book is divided in chapters detailing all the possible conditions: Extreme Sun/Heat, Dry Air/Central Heating, Deep Shade, High Humidity, Draughty, Cold.
By matching awkward spaces in your home with environments in the natural world, this book shows you how to relocate plants to improve their growth and help them thrive.
Features an extensive section with informative plant profiles that include their origin, easy-to-follow tips on feeding and watering, optimum conditions, prospective growth, and is concluded by a helpful troubleshooting chapter dealing with common problems, and what to try when all hope is lost.
About the Author
Hailing from a London plant and flower dynasty - their grandfather was a Dutch flower merchant and nursery owner, and their mother the celebrated horticulturalist and author Fran Bailey - Maddie and Alice Bailey head up Forest London, a cult plant shop with two sites in South London.
Reviews
Full of gorgeous photography, illustrations, tricks and tips, the book is a godsend for those who fear that where houseplants are concerned, they are the grim reaper. * The Yorkshire Post *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784883959
Author Maddie Bailey
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Publisher Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Weight(grams) 750g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 190mm * 21mm