Get Plants
How to Bring Green Into Your Life
Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Photography by Sarah Cuttle
240 pages
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400 COLOR PLATES
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8 1/2 x 10
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© 2017
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Why you need plants
How to use this book
What’s in a name?
Part One: What plants need
Fire
Water
Earth
Air
Lurve
Part Two: Plants
Dramatic
Edible
Elegant
Trashy
Natural
Odd
Charming
Retro
Structural
Part Three: Places
Great outdoors
The yard or town garden
Balcony or terrace
Doorstep
Window boxes and ledges
Equally great indoors
Tilting at windowsills
Macramé central
Stairwell to heaven
All about the hall
Bathroom
Kitchen
Living room
Bedroom
Part Four: Buy, care and share
Buy
Provenance
Care
Containers
Watering
Feeding
Potting on
Look after your leaves
Is there a doctor in the house?
Pruning and deadheading
Share
Take cuttings
Appendix
Index
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Why you need plants
How to use this book
What’s in a name?
Part One: What plants need
Fire
Water
Earth
Air
Lurve
Part Two: Plants
Dramatic
Edible
Elegant
Trashy
Natural
Odd
Charming
Retro
Structural
Part Three: Places
Great outdoors
The yard or town garden
Balcony or terrace
Doorstep
Window boxes and ledges
Equally great indoors
Tilting at windowsills
Macramé central
Stairwell to heaven
All about the hall
Bathroom
Kitchen
Living room
Bedroom
Part Four: Buy, care and share
Buy
Provenance
Care
Containers
Watering
Feeding
Potting on
Look after your leaves
Is there a doctor in the house?
Pruning and deadheading
Share
Take cuttings
Appendix
Index
Acknowledgements
Review Quotes
Flower Arranger
“As the resurgent interest in houseplants abounds, this book is bang on trend. It shows that with a little basic know-how you can find a plant or flower that will flourish in any of the different ecological niches found in and around the home.”
Country Living
“A good read. . . . This is the ideal book for your student son or daughter if they lack green fingers, as Katherine takes a youthful and upbeat approach to matching plants to personality types.”
Richard Barley, director of horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
“I hope that through reading and enjoying this wonderful book, many more people will be encouraged to ‘have a go’—to be enticed to share their living spaces with plants, to seek to understand their needs, to enjoy the successes, and to learn from minor setbacks. All of our lives are richer when shared with plants!”
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