The Indestructible Houseplant: 200 Beautiful Plants That Everyone Can Grow

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Tovah Martin, the undisputed Queen of Green, shows that anyone can grow healthy houseplants. It all boils down to a simple set of skills and—here’s the crucial part—picking the right plants. These tough but beautiful plants can thrive in less-than-ideal conditions, and they’re easy to find. You’ll also learn how to pot, repot, water, and fertilize; pick up some great ideas for fun, funky containers; and benefit from Tovah’s tips on how to display your plants to perk up a room. So get some indestructibles and start your indoor garden. As Tovah promises, “Life will be beautiful.”

Enlarge Image The New Shade Garden

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Presents a comprehensive guide to creating a shade garden with emphasis on the adjustments necessary for a changing climate, offering advice on such subjects as sustainable watering, container gardening, and dealing with foraging animals.

The Plant Lover's Guide to Asters

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Provides information on 100 different species of the daisy-shaped flowers, including helpful information on their growth and care and everything else a home gardener would need to introduce them into his or her garden.

The Plant Lover's Guide to Tulips

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The Plant Lover’s Guides offer a rich source of information on both new and classic garden plants. Written by enthusiastic experts, they recommend the best varieties for different situations, inspire ideas for new plant combinations, and are packed with resources for the home gardener. These gorgeous guides celebrate the beauty of each plant and form a comprehensive library that every plant lover will want to own.

The Plant Lover's Guide to Sedums

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Sedums are easy-to-grow flowering perennials with succulent foliage. Their color changes dramatically with the seasons—in fall, they are rich and earthy while in summer their flowers come in vibrant shades of pink and yellow.The Plant Lover’s Guide to Sedums includes everything you need to know about these beautiful gems. Plant profiles highlight 150 of the best varieties to grow, with information on zones, plant size, soil and light needs, origin, and how they are used in the landscape. Additional information includes designing with sedums, understanding sedums, growing and propagating, where to buy them, and where to see them in public gardens. The Plant Lover’s Guides offer a rich source of information on both new and classic garden plants. Written by enthusiastic experts, they recommend the best varieties for different situations, inspire ideas for new plant combinations, and are packed with resources for the home gardener.

The Plant Lover's Guide to Epimediums

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Provides recommendations and growing information for over one hundred varieties of epimediums, plants revered for their delicate flowers and dramatic foliage.

Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space

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Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture. The book features the work of a rising generation of designers across the globe who are starting to think about furniture in an architectural way, resulting in pieces that brilliantly transform interior spaces.Boosted by digital design and new manufacturing possibilities, furniture design that morphs into “micro architecture” is one of the most innovative fields of design today. Surveyed here are hundreds of examples of these objects, including bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, and self-contained, expandable kitchen cubes. From Chicago-based firm Bureau Spectacular’s “Briefcase house,” and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s moving boxes within rooms to Dutch designers Makkink & Bey’s conversational Ear Chairs and the French atelier 37.2’s series of self-standing cubes, Furnitecture opens the door to a world of design invention and innovation.Presented in a compact, beautifully illustrated format, this volume will be an essential resource for designers and hip consumers everywhere.