The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants: The art and science to grow your own house plants (3) (Kew Experts)

A lovely book, great information, written in layman’s terms, beautiful illustrations. UPDATE - I cannot find how to update the seller feedback, so I just wanted to thank the seller for issuing A credit due to the condition of the book on receipt - Thankyou

Beautiful illustrations and photographs. Great for a little read or quick reference. I’ve yet to look for a houseplant that isn’t listed. There’s some really interesting bonus facts throughout. The whole book is lovely and looks great as well as being useful.

Well written & useful

This book contains a lot of useful information, especially the various sections on general information, which are about the best I've run across. Things like compost mixes (and how to make your own mixes for various kinds of plants) how to do various kinds of propagation, notes on watering, taking care of plants while you're on holiday, etc. All fantastic. The processes are well explained, and the photographs are clear. The separate plants are accompanied by some very accurate and attractive watercolour illustrations, and the individual advice for each plant is useful. I'm a long-time houseplant lover, so I'm not a beginner. I still found this book useful indeed. However—and here is why I only gave 4 stars instead of 5—you'd think that a book produced under the auspices of the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew would have listed the plants (or at least INDEXED the plants) with their scientific names. But no. These are all presented under their 'common names' - some of which are reasonably well known, such as 'spider plant.' But things like 'candelabra plant' and 'peacock plant' and Bellmore Sentry Palm and Wax Flower? These names are not the names normally associated with these plants. The scientific names ARE included (in tiny print underneath the large names) and it turns out the plants ARE presented in alphabetical order by their scientific names, but it takes a while to figure this out. The scientific names are not indexed. So if you don't recognise the common name of the plant, you have to do a bit of searching. Everything we need to know is here, but it's not always easy to find. Other than that, I have no complaints. It's a good book

An excellent book for anyone interested in keeping house plants. Covers a wide range of plants with all there is to know for each plant backed up with very nice photos of each.

Small, concise reference for growing house plants.

Ah this is just perfection. It focuses on the most common houseplants and dedicates about a page for each, with information on the ideal location, lighting, size, care and other info. It has a lot of great project ideas and a lovely intro section on propagation and general notes - very useful, can't recommend it enough !

I bought this for myself after buying it as a stocking filler for someone else. Lots of info on common house plants, general care, equipment and a few project sections with instructions. Nice pictures and illustrations.

Bought for my neice but it looks really good and I may have to keep it. Insightful information about plants and easy to read.

This is a beautiful book!

Libro stupendo, semplice da capire anche per chi è alle prime armi con il plant design e illustrato in maniera incredibile.

Good reference book for beginners.

Contains informations about common indoor plants which you can read for a quick information.