The Green Indoors: Finding the Right Plants for Your Home Environment

by Maddie Bailey, Alice Bailey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784884185
Publisher:	Hardie Grant London
Publication date:	06/24/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	31 MB
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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

What a Plant's Characteristics Can Tell Us 10

1 Natural Environments 17

2 The Home Environment 25

3 Plant Profiles 35

Extreme Sun/Heat 37

Dry Air/Central Heating 55

Deep Shade 73

High Humidity 91

Draughty 113

Cold 131

Troubleshooting: What Seems to be the Problem? 148

Plant Directory 162

Glossary 164

About the Authors 166

Acknowledgements 168

Index 170