Whether you need a gift for a plant loving friend, or you’re looking for a fun, planty coffee table book, you’ve come to the right place. Check out the list of the best plant books on the market!
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In 2018, my first book, How To Raise A Plant And Make It Love You Back, was on shelves at all major book stores (and even Target – I kind of wanted to die). It quickly became a best seller and could NOT believe it! It’s a modern gardening book for the new generation of indoor gardeners. Not only is it educational, but it has some fun projects and TONS of inspiration.
My co-author (Morgan Doane) and I had a small amount of time to breath before we were asked to write a second book in the series, How To Plant A Room And Grow A Happy Home. Whether you’re a total novice, a newly minted plant parent or an experienced indoor gardener, this book will help you take the next step to having a well-planted home.
The best plant books
I’ve gotten to know some pretty amazing people in my plant journey and a few of them have written equally amazing books. So without further ado – The Best Plant Books on the market!
1.HOUSEPLANTS FOR ALL: Danae Horst’s Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!
2.HOW TO PLANT A ROOM: Whether you’re a total novice, a newly minted plant parent or an experienced indoor gardener, this book will help you take the next step to having a well-planted home. Whether you’re a total novice, a newly minted plant parent or an experienced indoor gardener, this book will help you take the next step to having a well-planted home.
3.THE HOUSE PLANT BOOK: Terrain’s plant experts travel the world in search of the most unusual and interesting houseplants. In this inspiring and practical guide, they share their favorite specimens
4.INDOOR JUNGLE: This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It’s time to finally turn that thumb green.
5.HAPPY PLANT: Forward written by Erin Harding (That’s me!) & Morgan Doane. Build confidence in tending indoor plants through this guide to basic plant care, all while learning about the history of houseplants, how they communicate, and sustainable ways to troubleshoot houseplant parenting issues.
6.PLANT COACH: Plant Coach is his comprehensive guide for the everyday plant owner who wants to alleviate the stress of plant ownership while doing the best for their plants and the planet. Cutsumpas reframes what it means to be a plant parent by viewing the home as an ecosystem, introducing unconventional and sustainable plant tactics that go beyond the basic requirements of water and sunlight.
7.GROWING JOY: Discover the power of plants to help you disconnect from the stress and anxiety of modern life and grow more joy in your world. Filled with practices to help plant lovers step away from their screens and cultivate delight and peace of mind with plants, Growing Joy is your guide to transforming plant care into self-care.
8.HOW TO GROW: In this transformative guide, TikTok’s most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater—aka Garden Marcus—offers lessons for growth rooted in lessons from the plant world to help cultivate the soul.
9. URBAN JUNGLE: Living and Styling with Plants is a source of inspiration, ideas and a manual for all of those who want to bring more plants into their home.
10.WILD AT HOME: Take a tour through Hilton’s own apartment and other lush spaces, filled with a huge array of thriving plants, and learn all you need to know to create your own urban jungle.
11.YOU GROW GURL!: Discover the joys and self-nurturing benefits of plant parenthood, from learning how to begin building your own lush plant family to getting into those fun tips on how to care for your green gurls, with this beautiful, illustrated guide from the dazzling creator of the @plantkween Instagram account.
12.PLANTS ARE MY FAVORITE PEOPLE: Whether you are an aspiring plant parent or already care for a junglelike brood, plant-stagram influencer Alessia Resta (aka Apartment Botanist) has distilled everything you need to know to start and grow your collection in this plant-care bible. It covers all the basics, like understanding light sources, choosing and buying plants, planning for seasonal care, and watering regimens.
13.HOW TO RAISE A PLANT: This attractive little book is ideal for the novice ‘plant parent’, providing tips on how to choose plants, where to keep them in your home, and above all else how to care for them and keep them thriving. Indoor plant experts from the leading account @houseplantclub, Erin Harding and Morgan Doane, bring the trendy and timeless subject to life alongside their beautiful photographs of happy plants in the home.
14.BLOOM: 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.
15.THE NEW PLANT PARENT: For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight.
16.WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: If you’re bored with the same old entry-level houseplants and long for something new, up your game with Enid Offolter. Called “the Houseplant Queen” by the New York Times, Offolter and her company, NSE Tropicals, are celebrities within the rare plant community, with legions of obsessed Instagram followers and plants that sell in heated auctions for thousands of dollars. In Welcome to the Jungle, Offolter shows you how to grow and propagate some of these exceptional botanicals on your own.
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