- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Which are delicate and which indestructible? – We show how to find the right home for your plants and the right plants for your home.
The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, combining exquisite botanical illustrations with practical indoor projects.
Readers can discover over 75 life-changing plants and 12 home-transforming projects. Each project is described and illustrated with step-by-step photographs.
Starting from the premise that we want to show how to grow the right plant in the right place, we demonstrate the benefits of all common house plants and how to care and curate them in the home. Includes cacti, succulents, bromeliads including air plants, foliage house plants, flowering house plants, and house plants for scent and air freshening.
The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, combining exquisite botanical illustrations with practical indoor projects.
Readers can discover over 75 life-changing plants and 12 home-transforming projects. Each project is described and illustrated with step-by-step photographs.
Starting from the premise that we want to show how to grow the right plant in the right place, we demonstrate the benefits of all common house plants and how to care and curate them in the home. Includes cacti, succulents, bromeliads including air plants, foliage house plants, flowering house plants, and house plants for scent and air freshening.
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Plants
FERN
Delta maidenhair fern
Adiantum raddianum
These delicate, lacy plants that hail from the humid, shady forests of tropical America are the perfect bathroom plant, thriving in the steamy air. Look out for A. raddianum ‘Fragrantissimum’, with its lush, sweetly scented foliage, and the filigree A.r. ‘Micropinnulum’.
Family Pteridaceae
Temperature 10–24°C/50–75°F
Light Indirect light/semi-shade
Water Constantly moist but well-drained
Height and spread 50x80cm/20x32in
WHERE TO GROW
The graceful, drooping fronds make delta maidenhair fern a lovely choice for a shelf, basket or plant stand in a humid kitchen or bathroom; it also loves the humid atmosphere of a tropical terrarium (see Miniature rainforest).
HOW TO GROW
Use loam-based compost, which holds moisture better than multipurpose compost. Water the plant at its base. Mist regularly or place the pot on a tray of pebbles and water. Feed once a month from spring to autumn, with a balanced liquid fertilizer. Watering can be reduced in winter but keep humidity levels up. Remove scruffy growth at the base.
GROWING TIP
These are high-maintenance, fussy plants that hate being moved, so give them the perfect spot from the start as they dislike draughts and the blasting heat from radiators.
ALL IN THE MIND
The shiny, black stems on this fern give it its common name as they are thought to resemble human hair.
The shiny, black stems on this fern give it its common name as they are thought to resemble human hair.
BROMELIAD
Urn plant
Aechmea fasciata aka silver vase, scarlet star
Elegant, arching leaves are mottled with silver, and in summer the urn plant produces a single flower spike with pale pink bracts and small, but eye-catching, violet flowers. This rainforest plant is easy to look after.
Family Bromeliaceae
Temperature 15–25°C/59–77°F
Light Bright but indirect light
Water Water the central well and keep compost moist
Height and spread 60x60cm/24x24in
WHERE TO GROW
Its beautiful flower spike and striking leaves make this a perfect centrepiece or feature plant on a table or shelf away from a window.
HOW TO GROW
Plant in a 50:50 mix of orchid compost and multipurpose compost. Simply top up the central well with water so that it is always at least 2cm/3/4in full. Use rain-, filtered or distilled water. In the growing season, feed every couple of weeks with a di...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction to Growing House Plants
- Plants
- Index
- Picture acknowledgements
- Copyright