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Bloom

The secrets of growing flowering houseplants year-round

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1 of 1 copy available
In Bloom, The Houseplant Guru Lisa Eldred Steinkopf unleashes all the secrets on how to grow dozens of indoor plants that produce colorful, intricate, and sometimes fragrant blooms.
If you've ever struggled to get an orchid or African violet to rebloom, or if you've hesitated to add plants like hoya, anthurium, Madagascar jasmine, or clivia to your windowsill for fear you may never see their gorgeous flowers, Lisa reveals the insider strategies you need to encourage these plants to strut their stuff. In her signature warm and beginner-friendly tone, she introduces simple techniques you can use to encourage bloom alongside all the ins and outs of caring for these beautiful plants. Lush, full-color photography accompanies each in-depth plant profile.
Upping your houseplant game doesn't have to involve spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on the next trendy leafy-green foliage plant. If you want to expand both your growing skills and the number of specimens in your houseplant family, dive into the world of flowering houseplants instead. New cultivars of old favorites are taking the houseplant world by storm, and other, more unusual, species are now making their way into the limelight, thanks to the interest of millions of new houseplant parents around the world.
Inside the pages of Bloom, you'll meet:
  • The best flowering houseplants to cascade from window ledges, hanging pots, and plant shelves
  • A collection of small blooming houseplants perfect for tabletops, desks, and windowsills
  • Houseplants with colorful blooms for the living room, dining room, and bedroom
  • Fill your home with foliage and flowers, and enjoy all the color and calm they'll add to your living space.
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      • Publisher's Weekly

        Starred review from August 15, 2022
        The Houseplant Guru blogger Steinkopf (Houseplants) offers clever tips on caring for flowering plants. Starting with the basics of light, potting medium, containers, and watering, Steinkopf advises on how to keep a plant healthy before, during, and after it blooms. The difference, she notes, between caring for a flowering plant and a foliage one is that flowering varieties require more light, as “blooming takes a large expenditure of energy.” She urges emulating the native habitat of a plant in order to give it the best chance for success, and offers no shortage of solutions to common issues: if a lipstick plant is uneven, for example, hang it from “an east or west window... or 1 or 2 feet from a south window” and give it “a one-quarter turn every time it is watered.” Detailed “Flower Portraits” introduce readers to a variety of blooms, including African violets (which are “easy to bring into bloom”), tropical zebra plants, and begonias, which “send their flowers out during the short days of winter when not much else is in bloom.” New and experienced growers alike will relish these strategies for adding a little flower power.

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