Summer Keir: Get Plants: How to Bring Green into Your Life

Get Plants: How to Bring Green into Your Life

Review -I hope that through reading and enjoying this wonderful book, many more people will be encouraged to 'have a go'--to be enticed to share their living spaces with plants, to seek to understand their needs, to enjoy the successes, and to learn from minor setbacks.

All of our lives are richer when shared with plants!- --Richard Barley, director of horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"I hope that through reading and enjoying this wonderful book, many more people will be encouraged to 'have a go'--to be enticed to share their living spaces with plants, to seek to understand their needs, to enjoy the successes, and to learn from minor setbacks.

All of our lives are richer when shared with plants!" --Richard Barley, director of horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew About the Author Katherine Price is a professional writer of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a trained gardener, having previously worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for 10 years.

It's official, plants are cool. They conjure up exotic places, bring nature indoors and make you feel better. Who wouldn't choose to share a space with them - but where do you start? The good news is there's a plant for every windowsill or shelf, for every shady yard or front door step.

And whatever your style - from urban sleek to shabby chic to retro - there are plants that will fit into your life and make it brighter and more interesting.

Get Plants picks up on this trend by putting plants front and centre of a new book for a wide general audience, especially those that don't see themselves as gardeners.

It shows that with a little know-how you can find a plant that will flourish in the many different "ecological niches" available in and around your home from shady basement stairwell to south-facing windowsill.

Exciting contemporary photography shows how they pep up your living space and give a taste of the satisfaction you get in looking after them.

This is an opportunity to showcase intriguing sundews and lithops, grow large majestic trees from seed to keep on your front step (for a while) and find out a bit of plant science along the way - why do orchid flowers last so long, why must you keep water topped up in the funnel of a bromeliad? The book draws on the work of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - its scientific work, plant hunting and fieldwork, plant collections and horticultural knowledge.

Throughout the book author Katherine Price weaves in the expert advice of Kew's gardeners and scientists, distilling the essence of Kew's expertise into practical use.

This no-nonsense, beautiful book is a practical guide guaranteed to inspire any reader.

Consumer review about Get Plants: How to Bring Green into Your Life :
A beautiful and inspirational book for all those who are not sure or would like to learn more about plants for the house and patio. Each plant is given an explanation of how and why it should be looked after because of its origin. The photography is superb. So far I have bought 4 copies for friends and think the book would make a great wedding present too.(Read more)