Helen Plum Library

"Become the best plant parent you can be...Houseplant hysteria is here to stay. For new and seasoned plant owners alike, Houseplants & Succulents For Dummies is the ideal resource on plant care, growing cycles, unique plant varieties, and all the essentials you need to know about your rooted friends. Ensure that your sprouts grow and thrive, with tons of tips and answers to all your questions. Are they getting enough light? Are you overwatering? Why...

"Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin show you how to successfully plant, grow, and harvest 47 varieties of tropical fruiting plants - in any climate! This straightforward, easy-to-use guide brings papaya, passionfruit, pepper, pineapples, and more out of the tropics and into your home"--

A horticulturist, garden designer and writer/editor provides tips and tricks to sustain and "fix" your house plants with information on more than 100 different plants to help them bloom and thrive in your own space

"Flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler walks you from seed to colorful, long-lasting blooms in her signature sweet-as-pie style. From growing tips and tricks to how to process cut flowers for the longest vase life, this book includes it all. Lisa divides the growing season into two parts; one that focuses on cool-weather-loving cut flowers, and another that focuses on summer annuals that thrive in the heat. It's the perfect balance of inspiration and education"--...

"A fully revised and updated field guide to the 90 most common and sought-after species in North America. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring detailed color illustrations, this informative guide makes it easy to identify plants in your backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas"--

Chester plans to have a salad for lunch, but in order to do that, he'll need vegetables. So, off he goes to the community garden, except he quickly learns that he won't be dressing a salad anytime soon. Instead, the vegetables start dressing him down. According to them, "vegetables" don't exist!

"With an elegant spiral binding and layflat design, Modern Watercolor Botanicals features: Lessons with detailed instructions for 3 skill levels- beginner, intermediate, and advanced; Over 100 pieces of traceable artwork, so no drawing experience is required; Easy-to-understand diagrams, pictures, and instructions; Each lesson builds upon skills learned in the previous lesson; "Why Art?" essays exploring the joys, challenges, and inherent value in...

The word 'aliens' can be used in many ways, to invoke fear, dislike and fascination. For biologists it is used to indicate organisms that have been introduced by people to new territories. In the British Isles alien plants are common, conspicuous, pestiferous, beautiful, edible - and can be both useful and harmful. Over the last fifty years, the study of alien plants has progressed from an eccentric hobby, enabling amateur botanists to increase the...

Ferns gives the reader an introduction to the reasons for the variety of ferns in the British Isles, as well as the history of their development within this landscape and their use by man. Ferns, horsetails and clubmosses, or to use their technical term the Pteridophyta, are a fascinating area of the British flora that ranged from the prehistoric-looking horsetails to the delicate beauty of the Aspleniaceae family (otherwise known as the spleenworts...

A treasure for all lovers of wild plants - Wild Orchids of Britain provides a detailed account of all our orchid species, varieties and hybrids, and has a useful key to identification. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Now published in ebook format, with a complete set of new distribution maps from the Atlas of the British Flora, this beautiful book remains the standard work in its subject, a treasure for all lovers of wild plants. Dr....