Staying Alive: The Go-To Guide for Houseplants - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Janet Melrose is the co-author of the Guides for the Prairie Gardener series. She is a garden educator and consultant, and an advocate for Calgary’s Sustainable Local Food System. She is a life-long gardener and holds a Prairie Horticulture Certificate and Home Farm Horticultural Therapy Certificate. She has a passion for Horticultural Therapy and facilitates numerous programs designed to integrate people marginalized by various disabilities into the larger community. She is a regular contributor to The Gardener for Canadian Climates magazine. She lives in Calgary where she runs her education and consulting company, Calgary’s Cottage Gardener.

Sheryl Normandeau is the co-author of the Guides for the Prairie Gardener series and author of The Little Prairie Book of Berries. A life-long gardener, she holds a Prairie Horticulture Certificate and a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Certificate and is a freelance writer specializing in gardening writing with hundreds of articles published. She is a regular contributor The Gardener for Canadian Climates, The Prairie Garden Annual, Herb Quarterly, and many more. She lives in Calgary.

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Introduction

Whether you have one tiny succulent on your desk at work or a massive collection of tropical plants in your home, it’s impossible to ignore the impact that caring for houseplants brings to our lives. We admire them for their beauty and uniqueness and the ways they decorate and define our living and working spaces.

The psychological benefits of houseplants cannot be understated either. As gardeners, we all know that warm, fuzzy feeling we get from nurturing plants. The act of caring for them—from watering to repotting—is deeply satisfying and can even reduce our stress levels. And horticultural therapists will tell you about the ways that having plants in a room will help with healing.

It’s even more than that! Making more plants through propagation is extremely rewarding—especially when we can share the new plants with others. And if you’re a dedicated houseplant collector, the thrill of finding a new cultivar you don’t yet have can’t be measured.

Should you get seriously bitten by the houseplant bug, like we are, then you have a lot of plants all happily competing for space in your place! Looking after them takes a bunch of know-how, the right equipment, and your enthusiasm. We are here to supply the know-how. You supply the rest!

—Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose