1977-01-01 A guide to the showy ornamentals found outdoors in tropical and subtropical regions and indoors in cooler climes in homes and offices. Here are the outstanding plants that attract attention because of their colorful flowers, consipcuous foliage or decorative fruits. More than 380 species, prized...
1982-01-01 With this indispensable guide you will learn how to grow beautiful, vibrant houseplants and keep them healthy all year long. Photographs, charts and explicit instructions cover all aspects of plant growth and care, and special sections on bottle gardens, terrarium plants, and designing with...
Foliage Plants for Modern Living contains over 125 full color illustrations of useful and pupular foliage house plants, accompanied by care instruction and suggestions as to their decorative uses. There is an index of common names, as well as a fullsection on the general care of indoor plants...
1976-01-01 This book discusses how to buy a house plant and care for it. The book is divided into foliage, flowerlng, bulbs & corms, minature trees, cut flowers, flowering house plants, flowering pot plants, cacti and succulents.
1978-01-01 With the book's helpful month-by-month format, each entry provides complete cultural information on the plant: requirements of water, fertilizer, light, and temperatures, methods of progapation, a brief history of the plant, and a list of its varieties.
1957-01-01 Exotica is a comprehensive and contemporary pictorial record of ornamental plants introduced from far-flung tropical and warm-climate regions of the world. The object of this reference work is to acquaint friends of horticulture with the vast variety of interesting decorative plants which may be...
1978-01-01 Alfred Byrd Graf is probably the most widely traveled plant explorer of the world's tropics and subtropics. Horticulturist, botanist, and professional photographer, he has roamed the earth in the spirit of Von Humboll, Darwin, and David Fairchild earlier in the 19th and 20th centuries, in search...