Petal to the Metal

Growing Gorgeous Houseplants

Rosefiend Cordell

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English

Rosefiend Publishing.
13 December 2020

Gardening: plants; Gardening: flowers; House plants; Specialised gardening methods; Container gardening

Series: Easy-Growing Gardening

This book gives you ways to beat insect infestations on your houseplants, tips on preparing plants for winter, how to raise orchids, African violets, grow a Christmas cactus the way your grandma did, and make poinsettias rebloom. You can learn how to make a dish garden and terrarium. You learn about the right way to water your houseplants, ways to fight back against aphids, mealybugs, spider mites on your English ivy, and fungus gnats (when I worked in the greenhouse, they always flew straight at my eyes and I mastered how to kill them in mid-flight). When insects afflict your houseplants, consult this book.

I've worked over 20 years in horticulture, and before then, I was reading all of my grandma's houseplant books and getting plant starts from her, and had two tables of houseplants when I was in junior high and high school. These days I'm raising Phalaenopsis orchids (butterfly orchids) and other fussbudget plants. I've learned things through long experience. I share them all in this book to make your time with your houseplants fun and easy.

I'm a former horticulturist who worked in the gardening and landscape field for half of my life. I've worked in garden centers, as a perennial greenhouse manager, as a landscape designer, as an independent landscape contractor, and I was a municipal horticulturist for six years, taking care of over 20 gardens, a 300-rose rose garden, and planting 100 trees per year. I now have a trick back to show for it, but the memories live on!

Everything I've learned out in the field, I'm sharing here with you in these books.

By: Rosefiend Cordell
Imprint: Rosefiend Publishing.
Volume: 5
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9781953196170
ISBN 10: 1953196179
Series: Easy-Growing Gardening
Pages: 94
Publication Date: 13 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

I'm a former horticulturist who worked in the gardening and landscape field for half of my life. I've worked in garden centers, as a perennial greenhouse manager, as a landscape designer, as an independent landscape contractor, and I was a municipal horticulturist for six years, taking care of over 20 gardens, a 300-rose rose garden, and planting 100 trees per year. I now have a trick back to show for it, but the memories live on! Everything I've learned out in the field, I'm sharing here with you in these books.

Reviews for Petal to the Metal: Growing Gorgeous Houseplants

Everything you wanted to know about growing houseplants indoors. Know how pretty they are when you bring them home and then in a few weeks they start looking weepy. You need this book as it covers it all, lighting, fertilizing, insects, mold, temperature, etc. A wonderful resource for any home gardener. Houseplants are so beneficial for the air quality in your home, but you have to keep them alive for them to help. Rosefiend Cordell is a wonderful author and I have enjoyed reading all of her books. Gardening she knows and writes it in a way I find very interesting and helpful to the novice gardener. I will buy her books. In a way, I think this book is the author's romance with plants. There were up and downs, things that work and others that didn't, plus a few villains (bugs) -- now, does not that sound like a romance? I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book and I believe you would not be unhappy if you had it in your non-fiction collection of books.