Grow In the Dark by Lisa Steinkopf

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Grow in the Dark: How to Choose and Care for Low-Light Houseplants Hardcover – May 7, 2019
https://www.amazon.com/Grow-Dark-Choose-Low-Light-Houseplants/dp/0760364516

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Book Description

Grow in the Dark puts the spotlight on 50 of the best houseplants you can grow in your dim or dark apartment. Author Lisa Eldred-Steinkopf, known as the Houseplant Guru, shares the knowledge she’s gained tending to her own personal jungle of over 1,000 houseplants.

Having a south-facing window doesn’t always guarantee you the best light to grow plants—especially if your window faces an alley or a tree-lined street. What’s the point of growing an urban jungle if tall buildings are blocking all your sunshine? This compact guide, designed to look as good on your shelf as it is useful, will help you learn how to make the most of your light so you can reap the physical and emotional benefits of living with plants.

Detailed profiles include tips on watering your plants just right, properly potting them, and troubleshooting pests and diseases. You’ll also learn which plants are safe to keep around your pets.

Whether you live in a shady top-floor apartment or a dungeon-y garden level, this book will help you grow your plant collection to its healthiest for its Instagram debut.

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" What truly made this plant book shine was the amazing information for each of the plants..."
- Budget Earth

About the Author

Lisa Eldred Steinkopf is The Houseplant Guru, who features all things houseplants on her blog, thehouseplantguru.com. She is the author of Houseplants and Grow in the Dark and has written for HGTVgardens.com, Real Simple magazine, Michigan Gardener Magazine, the houseplant section of Allan Armitage’s Greatest Perennials and Annuals app, and Michigan Gardening Magazine, where she writes a monthly column. She worked for more than a decade at Steinkopf Nursery as the Annuals and Houseplants Manager, and has been interviewed online, in print, and on TV about houseplants. She harbors well over 1,000 houseplants in her home.

Product Specifications

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Cool Springs Press; New edition (May 7, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0760364516
ISBN-13: 978-0760364512
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars8 customer reviews

Dark home? You can still have beautiful plants!

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June 15, 2019 June 15, 2019
Just finished Grow in the Dark. . .Excellent! I'm a plant person & have a lot of books, but this is the best book on low light plants I've read! Good tips, loved the pictures, couldn't put it down! I would recommend for new & experienced plant people. Green Thumbs will discover some good tips, newbies will get good guidance as they buy their first plants.

Love Lisa and her books

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August 5, 2019 August 5, 2019
As always, fantastic information. Well put together, great photos.

Good plant index, but the photos need improvement

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May 27, 2019 May 27, 2019
As you would guess from the cute title, this book contains an informative directory of houseplants that tolerate low light, complete with information about their care and relevant properties such as toxicity to pets. This plant list is well-presented and nicely laid out. It might have made sense to group plants by type, so that all the ferns appeared together, etc., but the alphabetical order used by the author does make them easy to look up. This section is preceded by some overly long introductory chapters with overly obvious advice on plant care. Some of the content is just silly; for example, we are told that a leaning plant might be "suffering from phototropism," as if that were a problem and not just a natural property of plants. I would skip this material and go straight to the specific plant info. Unfortunately, here the photos don't do justice to the text. The descriptions frequently cite some special property of a plant that makes it interesting or desirable (fuzzy rhizomes, variegated leaf color, flower spike, etc.), but the particular specimens depicted often fail to exemplify these traits (or the photos fail to capture them). Instead, they seem like whatever specimen of that plant somebody happened to have in the house. In addition, although the pots, stands, and walls may be different, each photo is taken the same way: under harsh light with a prominent and distracting shadow on the wall behind it. This book would be helped immensely by photos with better lighting and a closer focus on each plant.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance digital review copy.

Beautiful book, but needs more depth which can be found elsewhere

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May 27, 2019 May 27, 2019
Not bad by any means. Provides strong suggestions for low light plants and how to increase the light in any home but lacks the depth and ease of use of The House Plant Expert. That should be the go-to first book for houseplant beginners. This can be added as an attractive coffee table book for the enthusiast and if you are looking for excellent pictures of the plants on recommendation.

For those of us who aren't blessed with south-facing windows!

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September 17, 2019 September 17, 2019
Great book for those of us who aren't blessed with south-facing windows or other good sources of light for houseplants. You might wonder "could I just do an online search and get a list of houseplants to grow in low-light?" You could but then you'd miss out on a lot of plants you won't find listed on websites, plus Lisa has included great information to ensure you have success with plants in your low-light conditions. This book would also make a great gift for a new apartment dweller/homeowner, paired with a lovely low-light houseplant of course.

(I received a review copy of this book with no obligations to do anything with it.)

Fantastic Guide to Low Light Growing

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August 21, 2019 August 21, 2019
As a homeowner, I've been investigating growing in low light for varying houseplant possibilities within my home. I love this book as it is filled with a very smart list of plant profiles at the back of the book indicating which plants work best in various growing conditions. The front of the book gives smart houseplant tips and I think it's a well-rounded guide on indoor low light growing.

Very Helpful and Informative!

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May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019
If you live in a dimly lit apartment like myself, then this book is the TLC that your houseplants deserve! Very helpful and informative and sure to make even the worst gardeners appear to have green thumbs!

Gorgeous and useful

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July 9, 2019 July 9, 2019
This book has really clear information for how to grow plants in apartments like mine that don't get a lot of light. I learned how to tailor my waterings to how much light a plant is getting, for example—a lot of the other info out there is not specific about that. The photos are lovely and modern too.

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