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lsparrow's review
4.0
great reference
included common house plants - sorted by plant - includes plant specific care tips and common problems. Simple and specific.
included common house plants - sorted by plant - includes plant specific care tips and common problems. Simple and specific.
annieb123's review
4.0
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
How Not To Kill Your Houseplant is a beautifully photographed and illustrated practical guide for the horticulturally challenged. Author Veronica Peerless has a friendly, upbeat, non-threatening manner which is like a 150 page pep talk (with pictures).
The intro pages include a pictorial index list with 8 full pages of color photos of common houseplants. The first bit is 'find your plant' with a page listing of culture info for each one explaining in clear language the do's and don'ts of houseplant culture.
I appreciated that each of the listings provides both the common and Latin names for the plants to avoid confusion and regional differences.
There's a chapter on selecting plants and what to look for to find a healthy trouble free specimen. There's also a handy reference for transporting your new plant safely and where to site it after you get it home.
The next chapters deal with potting (and repotting), general culture tips, and how to deal with pests and diseases, along with troubleshooting advice.
This is a colorful well made book, and definitely up to the usual quality for the publisher, DK press.
Four stars, lovely useful book.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher.
How Not To Kill Your Houseplant is a beautifully photographed and illustrated practical guide for the horticulturally challenged. Author Veronica Peerless has a friendly, upbeat, non-threatening manner which is like a 150 page pep talk (with pictures).
The intro pages include a pictorial index list with 8 full pages of color photos of common houseplants. The first bit is 'find your plant' with a page listing of culture info for each one explaining in clear language the do's and don'ts of houseplant culture.
I appreciated that each of the listings provides both the common and Latin names for the plants to avoid confusion and regional differences.
There's a chapter on selecting plants and what to look for to find a healthy trouble free specimen. There's also a handy reference for transporting your new plant safely and where to site it after you get it home.
The next chapters deal with potting (and repotting), general culture tips, and how to deal with pests and diseases, along with troubleshooting advice.
This is a colorful well made book, and definitely up to the usual quality for the publisher, DK press.
Four stars, lovely useful book.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher.
dashadashahi's review
3.0
This book is a nice way to reference quick facts about certain plants. It is not overly in-depth making it quick and easy to read. However, similar to a lot of these plant handbooks they do not mention toxicity levels to animals which means I have to use external resources to cross-reference whether or not the plants would be safe around my cats. Nonetheless, the book is very pretty with nice pictures and bright animations as well as an index.
littleprefect's review
5.0
So, this book was informative in telling me Imma pretty much kill all my plants always. š³
However, it gave great tips and information. Unfortunately, Iām still horticulturally challenged.
However, it gave great tips and information. Unfortunately, Iām still horticulturally challenged.
mammothxwinter's review
4.0
Another nice starter houseplant book. Creative illustrations throughout. I really like the illustrations of specific diseases and issues on every page of the plant reference section. This book gets around the problem of a limited number of plant references. For each entry, there are one or more additional plants with similar care to the main plant, with a short note about any slight differences. This was a clever way to expand the total number of plants covered in this book. While it still doesn't contain a listing for all the plants I have in my small collection, it has more than some other starter books.
bookaddictrn's review
2.0
Maybe Iām being too harsh, but I felt like I was reading the āhow to care for meā tabs that generally come in store-bought houseplants. Didnāt care for the āShare the Careā plant comparisons either. Cute title, pretty cover and pretty photos though.
sarahesmaewolfe's review
4.0
This book is super cute to look at and has a lot of useful information but I do wish for some plants it was more thorough. It has main pages about one plant, then includes plants that require similar care so those plants don't have their own pages.
booksandyarniness's review
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
This is a typical DK type book, so there is a lot of visual elements to this, things like speech bubbles as a graphic organizer. But although every plant gets a photo and it is well organized, there isn't as much information on things like how to treat various diseases your plant may be suffering from, and the writing is teeny, especially in the appendix.