Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants

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This is a book for the obsessive plant collectors amongst us, the people who want that plant just out of reach, who want that plant that apparently grows happiest in a sandwich bag on a windowsill and that want to spend more money on a plant than some others of us would. For anyone looking for a beginner-friendly but extensive guide on houseplant care, this is a fantastic book for getting started.

Detailed chapters on light, water, humidity, fertilizer, variegation, propagation and pests and diseases have you covered so you can confidently care for all your house plants. If you are a novice or have a great passion for houseplants, as I have, in my opionion, this is the best comprehensive houseplant book on the market today. It was peaks and troughs all through writing this book of being incredibly happy, incredibly proud to absolutely hating it. This is one of Tony's biggest bugbears, who says home-made fertilisers are “a total waste of food or total waste of time.I found the perfect spot with the perfect light for it and it’s now rewarding me with plentiful verdant growth. And I feel like we've been on parallel journeys with this, I'm not going to go on about my book, because that's not what this episode is about. But let me tell you, as I've been doing every week in the run up to the launch of my book, another fact from Legends Of The Leaf, this week's fact concerns Dionaea muscipula, the venus flytrap. Then dive into this book and be taken through detailed chapters on light, water, humidity, fertilisation, variety, propagation and pests and diseases. For the book I showed how it stem propagate that so I have to have that plant ready in all different stages of the propagation from it being first cut to the shoot to it's first leaf.

com/products/not-another-jungle-comprehensive-care-for-extraordinary-houseplants 7168931135532 Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants 16. Tony is very aware of the damage that plant-poaching can have on our environment and that stripping plants from their natural habitat is a dangerous thing for the plant and for our environment. The rest of the book is devoted to advice on the best way to care for your plants from light, watering and humidity to how to feed and what soil, or substrate, to use. But otherwise, all of that information will be going up very very soon because I know some of you love your deep dives into the topics covered in the book.When you see one of these in the wild, and you see the position of the traps on the ground, it does seem rational that things would be climbing into them rather than flying into them. While the book highlights rare specimens, which I loved, it also is full of practical advice on general plant care. Harnessing his new-found fame amongst the green-fingered, he has now published a book, 'Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants', to sort fact from fiction.

Taught to garden as a child by his grandparents, this book will bring together 30 years of growing experience and plant knowledge. Alongside this is practical advice on everything from planting a terrarium to making a moss pole for climbing plants and an explanation of variegation – it’s more complicated than you’d think!Because I think a lot of people choose houseplants just based on what they like look off and try and make it work in that little corner.