How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

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Our water in Tucson is extremely hard, so when I switched to Berkey filtered water for the leaves, the plants started to look much healthier. If you're the first type of person (at this point in time) you simply won't care for your houseplants properly in the long term. You’ll also discover how to keep a cactus alive, where to hang air plants, and how to repot succulents. A string of ill-fated plant purchases might even make you wonder if you’re fit to take care of houseplants at all.

Who among us has brought home a healthy plant, perhaps a tropical split-leaf monstera or a fuzzy, opalescent succulent, only to soon stand guilty of planticide? Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent - of more than 100 different plants (if you're up for it)! HOW NOT TO KILL YOUR HOUSEPLANT (subtitle "Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged") is not primarily, despite its title, a book about how to cope with a black thumb. With a few simple tips and tricks, you can ensure that your houseplants stay healthy and happy for years to come.

Relying on these "survival tips," readers will ensure that their home (or office) plants live long, healthy lives.

If you're like me and enjoy the challenge of growing houseplants and getting them to thrive, then Ourhouseplants can help. Enter your information below and get instant access to my FREE downloadable resource and take action on your goals today! Over the last 20 years, Tom has successfully owned hundreds of houseplants and is always happy to share knowledge and lend his horticulture skills to those in need. This is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what’s in the pot to keeping it in check when it grows too well! As he handed me the spiky plant he told me that he had owned this particular one for five years and had never had any problems.

Really detailed and thorough book, with detailed tips on how to make sure every type of houseplant survives!

Reading up on how much water your particular plant friend needs will point you in the direction of another plant-specific necessity: sunlight. It's fair to say your placement choices need work because you've just given a lethal bout of sunburn to your plant and no amount of aftersun lotion is fixing this boo boo. Even if you never use fertiliser as long as you repot once every couple of years your plant will survive, so the potential to cause damage by overfeeding is massively more probable. You learned in school that plants need sunlight to be able to grow big and strong, so you figure that sun drenched heat trap you've got can only be a good thing in the grand scheme of things.It’s just a matter of considering all the variables and testing for each one, but with time, experience, and a few mistakes, you’ll learn to understand the signs better.

This is a great opportunity to refresh the soil, prune the roots, and give your plant a new lease on life. This book starts out with basic, easy-to-follow plant tips on choosing, potting, watering, feeding, and placing your plant. Stop being a feeder and start being a carer by reading the back of the fertiliser bottle or box and understand how much you need to be giving your plant. So if you’re a houseplant enthusiast with a history of accidental planticide, we’ve got your back: we asked the experts for tips on how to keep them alive and well.A good trick is to stick your finger in the top of the soil down to about the second knuckle and feel for any moisture. How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is available as both an ebook and a physical book, but I'd highly recommend the physical book. She is currently Commissioning Content Editor at Gardens Illustrated , having previously worked as a content producer at www. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. And now, as our time spent outside in nature is currently limited, for those without gardens the health benefits of being surrounded by greenery have never been more important.