A beginner's guide to house plants

"A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment. In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including: How to select the right plants for your spaces and lifestyle -- Practical advice on purchasing, potting and styling your plants -- How to care for many different types of plants--from succulents and ferns to exotics -- A mini field guide to over 60 popular plants you should know about -- And so much more! Cultivating house plants can be both creative and fun! Plant expert Ryusuke Sakaino provides tips on how to use colors, textures, patterns and shapes to create a lush living space, with one plant or many. His gorgeous photos will inspire you to add greenery to every room in your home and office. No longer just a pandemic hobby, plants deserve to be a permanent part of your lifestyle!"--Publisher.

Translation of: Kurashi no zukan green ©2020.

"Create beautiful and healthy green spaces in your home" -- Cover.

In this book you'll find: guidelines for selecting the right plants for your lifestyle and your spaces; tips on potting and styling your plants and making them thrive; a mini field guide to over 60 popular indoor plants and their characteristics.

part 1. Creating a life with more greenery: Selecting your plants ; Displaying your plants ; Hanging your plants ; Projects with plants ; Case studies -- part 2. 64 house plants you'll want in your life -- part 3. Some things you need to know: Watering basics ; Watering according to plant type ; Daily care to prevent plants from dying ; What kind of environments do plants like? ; Fertilizing your plants ; Repotting basics ; Repotting step by step ; Maintaining a plant's shape ; Q&A about common plant problems.