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At Home with Plants

At Home with Plants

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At Home with Plants

At Home with Plants

Overview

Get a little greenery in your life with this beautiful, practical guide to decorating with houseplants. At Home with Plants helps you select, plant, and display an array of easy-to-source, easy-to-care-for botanicals. Includes stylish projects—such as terrariums and hanging planters—as well as a special section of design ideas for each room of the house, plus the best plants for each space.

Houseplants are hot, and creative interior planting is becoming increasingly easy to achieve. Indoor gardening is not just about growing a plant, but about using it as an accessory to boost your home’s style and mood. In this inspirational book, interior landscape designer and Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner Ian Drummond pairs up with interiors writer Kara O’Reilly to show you how to transform your home with plants, offering up more than 250 gorgeous aspirational images and ideas for each space in the house.

These plant-design experts will walk you through the steps to create your indoor oasis with chapters on:
THE PRACTICALITIES: Health Benefits, Cleaning the Air, Houseplants & Allergies

PLANT FAMILIES: Bold, Edible, Flowers & Fragrance, Tough & Tolerant, The Indestructibles

CONTAINERS: Potential Planters, Container Materials, Return of the Terrarium

DESIGN WITH PLANTS: Where to Start, Scale & Contrast, Symmetry & Repetition, Alternative Displays

RIGHT PLANT, RIGHT ROOM: Living Spaces, Kitchens & Eating Spaces, Sleeping Spaces, Bathing Spaces, Children’s Spaces, Working Spaces, Connecting Spaces

THE BASICS: Light, When & How to Water, Plant Care, Plant Doctor

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681882819
Publisher: Weldon Owen
Publication date: 09/19/2017
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 1,086,307
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ian Drummond is creative director of the Indoor Garden Design Company, alongside Pippa Robinson and David Grace. A true north London boy, Ian uses garden and horticultural design to express his understanding of city living. He has worked on art installations for the Barbican Art Gallery and on the “Living with Nature” Exhibition at St. Pancras Station. He has also scooped up an impressive array of medals for design schemes and interior gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Ian’s work mainly focuses on creative projects—film premieres, fashion shows, and charity functions, including the BAFTAs and the annual Sir Elton John Aids Foundation's White Tie and Tiara Ball. He is also chairman of eFIG (European Federation of Interior Landscape Groups) and an RHS committee member.



Kara O'Reilly is an experienced writer and interiors editor who has worked on and contributed to some of the most influential style magazines and newspapers, including Style at The Sunday Times, Elle Decoration and Livingetc. She is currently interiors rditor at luxury lifestyle magazine The Resident.

Read an Excerpt

TOP TEN STAND-ALONE PLANTS

* Beaucarnea recurvata (elephant’s foot)

* Dracaena fragrans (corn plant)

* Fatsia japonica (Japanese aralia)

* Ficus benjamina (weeping fig)

* Ficus lyrata (fiddle-leaf fig)

* Howea forsteriana (Kentia palm)

* Monstera deliciosa (Swiss cheese plant)

* Philodendron scandens (heart-leaf

philodendron)

* Schefflera (umbrella tree)

* Yucca elephantipes (spineless yucca)

Table of Contents

The Houseplant Revival 6

Trends & Aesthetics 8

The Practicalities 12

Health Benefits 14

Plant Families 18

Bold 20

Edible 22

Flowers & Fragrance 25

Tough & Tolerant 29

The Indestructibles 33

Containers 34

Potential Planters 36

Container Materials 38

Return of the Terrarium 41

Designing with Plants 44

Whereto Start 46

Scale & Contrast 50

Symmetry & Repetition 52

Alternative Displays 57

Right Plant, Right Room 60

Living Spaces 62

Kitchens & Eating Spaces 80

Sleeping Spaces 96

Bathing Spaces 108

Children's-Spaces 122

Working Spaces 132

Connecting Spaces 144

The Basics 156

Light 158

When and How to Water 161

Plant-Care 163

Plant Doctor 166

Suppliers 169

Index 171

Acknowledgments 176

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