Pocket Guide to Houseplants: Over 240 Easy-Care Favorites

The most comprehensive and complete guide to house plants you'll ever need!

• Over 240 plants are featured, including growing and care information for popular, easy-care favorites
• Over 300 photos and illustrations to help you visualize each new plant in your home
• Handy 5"x7" pocket guide is great for travel and on-the-go use at greenhouses, nurseries, and home & garden stores
• Author Jack Kramer is a garden expert who has written over 100 gardening books

Looking to make your home greener? The next time you feel inspired to bring new plants home, take this conveniently compact guide with you to help you decide what to buy!

With plant descriptions and complete growing and care information for over 240 popular species, Pocket Guide to Houseplants will show you everything you need to know to incorporate plants in your interior design.

With over 300 color photographs and illustrations, you're sure to find inspiration for your home and the perfect plants for any and every space.

Author and garden expert Jack Kramer has written over 100 gardening books and makes it enjoyable for you to flip through these beautiful pages to see for yourself all the easy-care possibilities that lie ahead!

Here are just a few of the 240 plant profiles inside this book:

• Acanthus Family - Firecracker Flower, Zebra Plant, Nerve Plant, Lollipop Plant
• Amaryllis Family - Amazon Lily, Fireball, Kaffir Lily
• Aralia Family - Algerian Ivy, Variegated Umbrella Plant, Ginseng
• Aroid Family - Green Goddess Alocasia, Tailflower, Fancy-leaved Caladium, Satin Potho, Nephthytis
• Begonia Family - Cleopatra, Red-leaf, Iron Cross, Angel Wing, Picotee
• Bromeliad Family - Amazonian Zebra Plant, Earth Star, Fingernail Plant, Poelmanii Flaming Sword
• Cacti and Succulents - Desert Rose, Jade Tree, Dinner-plate Kalanchoe, Pachyphytum, Easter Cactus, Donkey's Tail
• Euphorbia Family - Chenille Plant, Croton, Poinsettia, Snow Bush
• Fern Family - Bird's Nest, Brittle Maidenhair, Japanese Shield, Black Rabbit's Foot, Hart Leaf, Lemon Tree
• Gesneriad Family - Lipstick Plant, Button Columnea, Goldfish Plant, Flame Violet, African Violet
• Ginger Family - Fiery Costus, Siam Tulip, Resurrection Lily, White Dragon Butterfly Ginger
• Lily Family and Relatives - Aloe, Cast Iron Plant, Ponytail Palm, Green Orange Spider Plant, Ti Plant
• Mulberry Family - Weeping Fig, Silver Cloud Ficus, Burgundy Rubber Plant
• Orchid Family - Stefan Isler, Corsage Flower, Wildcat, Jill Katalinka, Stars 'n' Bars, Topaz Dendrobium, Lady Slipper
• Palm Family - Fishtail, Bamboo, Butterfly, Chinese Fan
• Spiderwort Family - Moses-in-the-cradle, Turtle Vine, Purple Heart Plant, Wandering Jew, Purple Spiderwort
• ...and many more!

"Chock full of tips for creating a houseplant haven, Pocket Guide to Houseplants takes you on an enlightening journey through the world of indoor gardening. It's everything you need to succeed with houseplants." — Julie Bawden-Davis, author of Indoor Gardening the Organic Way and Fairy Gardening, Parade garden columnist, and publisher of HealthyHouseplants.com

Jack Kramer is the author of more than 100 gardening books, including The World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids and Women of Flowers, which won the Garden Writers Association of America's "Best Book" Award of Excellence. His many magazine credits include Horticulture, House Beautiful, Family Circle, and Architectural Digest. Widely known for cultivating and writing about houseplants, he was uniquely qualified to grow and supervise the photography of the plants profiled in this book.