"Green up your life! Add lush beauty to every room. Discover how indoor plants add life, vibrancy, and style to your home. Grow spiky cactus, textural succulents, leafy palms, and elegant orchids that infuse rooms with exotic flowers, intriguing foliage, bold color, and heady fragrance. packed with beautiful photos of new varieties as well as reliable favorites. This book also offers practical advice for keeping plants looking their best in all seasons."--Back cover.

A handy guide to indoor gardening, from caring for houseplants to building greenhouses Millions of people love to garden, and more and more of them are finding creative and inspiring ways to bring those gardens indoors. This new book covers all the basics of indoor gardening, including choosing plants, caring for them, and designing the greenhouses, conservatories, and sunrooms they live in. Chapters include a primer on indoor gardening and detailed directions for a range of indoor projects, while a comprehensive glossary of plant types keeps you informed. Throughout, more than 500 gorgeous color photographs display step-by-step how-tos and beautiful finished projects. Includes diagrams and simple directions for indoor garden projects like basket gardens, bonsai, living walls, topiaries, and water gardens Features 500 color photographs that offer endless inspiration Tips from the Garden Doctor and Test Garden Tips appear throughout to help troubleshoot common problems If you want to bring your love of gardening from the back yard into the front room, Better Homes and Gardens Indoor Gardening is the guide for you.

The ideal guide to getting started for every beginning gardener Gardening Made Simple is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to creating beautiful gardens, including all the basics of planting, growing, and caring for trees, shrubs, flowers, fruits, vegetables, lawns and other greenery. With plenty of clear and explanatory full-color photographs, it gives beginners the inspiration and simple guidance they need to achieve their green-thumb dreams. A helpful introductory section covers basic tools and techniques and shows you how to choose the right garden plans and plants for your Zone, prepare your soil, manage pests, and prune, mulch, fertilize, and water with ease. Includes more than 65 step-by-step gardening projects Features 145 easy-to-grow plants, including sections on container gardening, growing your own vegetables, fruits, and herbs, flower gardening, landscaping with trees, shrubs, vines, and groundcovers, and foolproof houseplants Features more than 1,200 color photographs throughout, including step-by-step photos and shots of finished projects, as well as colorful illustrations and easy plant-by-number diagrams Includes handy Ask the Garden Doctor question-and-answer content, and Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden tips throughout No matter your gardening experience and skill level, Gardening Made Simple provides the inspiration, insight, and advice you need to grow the garden of your dreams.

Provides information for effective gardening, including what tools to use, how to prepare the soil, and how to grow different plants, such as flowers and trees.

Discusses landscaping, lawns, groundcovers, trees, shrubs, vines, greenhouses, and insect and disease control, with over four hundred how-to-illustrations and photographs