The New Plant Parent

The creator of Instagram’s House Plant Journal mixes love with scientific logic in this beautifully photographed guide for indoor gardeners. For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. With this book, indoor gardeners can be less a passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all of the basics of growing house plants, from finding the right light, to everyday care like watering and fertilizing, to containers, to recommended species. Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for over half a million indoor gardeners.

Darryl Cheng, bestselling author of New Plant Parent, is back with the first book for indoor gardeners who want to step up from basic plant care to creating rewarding plant collections. The world of indoor gardening is exploding with desirable new and unusual plants. Thanks to the resources of the internet and social media, finding amazing varieties has never been easier--but knowing how to get maximum enjoyment from this enticing world is not so easy. Darryl Cheng brings his knowledge-based approach to the quest, offering collecting suggestions to suit every level of experience, and describing the riches of twenty-two different plant groups, from anthuriums to tillandsias. As always, he focuses on meeting each plant's requirements for light and moisture, and he provides practical ways to create optimal growing conditions at home. To inspire readers, there are photographs showing the dazzling variety of colors, forms, and patterns that each group offers. For Cheng, the happy indoor gardener learns to appreciate plants as living things that undergo stages of growth, decline, and rebirth. He teaches the joys of propagation, so that anyone can produce new life from old, increasing and sharing the world's wealth of beautiful plants.

How to Be a Great Houseplant Parent is a must-read for all new plant parents. Written by Lukizzy Moton, the Happy Houseplant Chick herself, this book is a short, but concise guide to caring for houseplants, especially for new plant parents. How to Be a Great Houseplant Parent covers everything from the benefits of houseplants to choosing the right plant for your space and lifestyle to plant care advice. It also includes troubleshooting tips for common pests and ways to share and expand your plant collection. If you are a brand-new plant parent, How to Be a Great Houseplant Parent is the ultimate resource for cultivating a happy and healthy home filled with beautiful, flourishing houseplants.

Choose the right houseplants for your space and then help them thrive with Houseplants for Beginners at your side. Having happy, healthy plants can make a space feel happy and healthy too. They add color, texture, and beauty—and can also improve air quality. For new plant parents eager for these benefits, this affordable, adapted edition of Houseplants by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf offers easy-to-understand information and advice. Each chapter deals with a key element of houseplant care, including light, water, soil, potting, and containers. The book also offers details on how to pick the right plants for your specific living situation. Go beyond just keeping your plants alive to understanding how to make them thrive. With Houseplants for Beginners, you will learn: How to choose the right plants for your space and lifestyle The specific needs of each plant species you have chosen Care essentials, including light, soil, and watering basics This book is organized to take you from starter plants to caring for more adventurous choices like tropical, climbing, and flowering species. This is the resource you can depend on to take you from your very first plant to seasoned plant parent.

Darryl Cheng, bestselling author of The New Plant Parent, is back with the first book for indoor gardeners who want to step up from basic plant care to creating rewarding plant collections. The world of indoor gardening is exploding with desirable new and unusual plants. Thanks to the resources of the internet and social media, finding amazing varieties has never been easier—but knowing how to get maximum enjoyment from this enticing world is not so easy. In The New Plant Collector, Darryl Cheng brings his knowledge-based approach to the quest, offering collecting suggestions to suit every level of experience, and describing the riches of twenty-two different plant groups, from anthuriums to tillandsias. As always, he focuses on meeting each plant’s requirements for light and moisture, and he provides practical ways to create optimal growing conditions at home. To inspire readers, there are photographs showing the dazzling variety of colors, forms, and patterns that each group offers. For Cheng, the happy indoor gardener learns to appreciate plants as living things that undergo stages of growth, decline, and rebirth. He teaches the joys of propagation, so that anyone can produce new life from old, increasing and sharing the world’s wealth of beautiful plants.

You enjoy having plants around you and their presence fills you with tranquility. Most of all, you love watching how your plants grow and express their individuality. Rather than regularly trimming them, you prefer to let them grow at their own pace and observe how they turn out. Will they grow tall or bushy? Will they tilt to one side? You're eager to find out. You find beauty in the appearance of plants which are slightly untamed. A simple definition plant parent is a person who thinks of their plants the way others tend to think about their pets or children.While to some of us the term "plant parent" is a relatively new thing, it's not really new at all. It's not exactly the same as parenting a child or caring for your pet, but it is about nurturing and attending to the needs of something other than yourself. It's about being responsible. With that in mind, it's important to put in a little research before jumping into potted plant parenting. As with pets or kids, you want your plant to have the best life possible.The millennial generation is known for many things but one of the most positive is that these young people are gardening more. In fact, a trend started by this generation is the idea of plant parenting. So, what is it and are you a plant parent too?

Are you a beginner at house plant care? Do you lose track of when you last watered or fed your plants? Would you like to keep plants but are scared of killing them? Or do you simply want to enjoy your plants to the fullest? If you said yes to one of those or all of them, are indoor gardening for beginners or a house plant expert, then this indoor garden journal is perfect for you! With enough space to record 98 different plants, this house plant journal book will give you everything needed to grow and nurture your plant family. We even started your house plant care journal for you! We've included a guide to four popular and easy to care for plants, complete with beautiful pictures. Start your plant family or add to it with everything you need to know about Aloe Vera, Lucky Bamboo, Orchids and Snake plants, including top tips to make sure your plant is best cared for. Transform your home into an urban jungle with this plant journal. It includes: A page to personalize your journal - Be proud to put your name to your collection! Create your own house plant guide to suit the plants you have - Fill in the plant information page with your plants' sunlight, watering, fertilizing and soil needs. Sunlight requirements - Find and remember the optimal location for your plant to thrive in your home. Water requirements - Record how much, how often and on which days you should water your indoor plants. Full year tracker page with key - Never forget when you last watered or fed your plant or its most loved location in your home. Simply use the key to record what you did on which day. Photo or sketch section - Space to add a picture of your beautiful plant or to draw one of your own. Notes section - Write notes to yourself such as when you brought your plant home, where you bought it from or how much it has grown with your nurture and care. What are you waiting for? Buy now to be the new plant parent of your dreams or the best and most organized indoor gardener.

you're probably here because you have a hard time keeping plants alive. i'm here to tell you not to give up. this book will help you understand the work it takes to keep a plant alive!