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

I was fortunate to have had the pleasure of visiting the Kew gardens in London and was excited to purchase the book. I love the book, great images of plants with a lot of useful information. The book is a nice size and great reference. I recommend.

The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants is a guide to keeping houseplants healthy and thriving at home. Released 7th March 2019 by Quarto on their White Lion imprint, it's 144 pages and available in ebook and hardcover format.Whenever gardeners think about inspiration and knowledge on a worldwide scale, the Kew gardens are at the very top of a very short list. They've been going strong for almost 260 years at this point. This book includes an herbal compendium of culture and care info for more than 70 individual houseplants along with several attractive plantings arranged as projects.Worth noting: this guide is written primarily with gardeners in the British Isles in mind, so some of the common names will be different for readers in other areas of the world. All of the plants in the individual plant listings have their proper genus and species information, so it's not a problem to be sure of a correct ID. The ebook version also has an interactive table of contents which is very handy.Much of the photography is from stock photos, but all of the project photos are purpose made for this edition. The culture information is straightforward and peppered with good tips and tricks for encouraging the best performance from all of your plants (and getting the best results with difficult or finicky plants).Four stars. Well written and full of attractive photography.Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing House Plants by Kay Maguire is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early April.Projects based around a design theme and the space you have to devote to your plants, balancing the way they should be displayed versus the amount of light they need, choosing soil/mulch/compost, and transplanting cuttings. Much like 'Growing Herbs,' this Kew Gardener's offers an outline of each plant, their ideal temperature and growing conditions, and water/light levels.

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

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.

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.

Happy with the book. It is extremely useful for me and my indoor plants.