Simon and Schuster's Guide to Houseplants

The content of the book was helpful. Would recommend to anyone that is interested in house plants.

+AH4-Yes you read it right, I'm a former brown-thumb, never had any luck with plants. Eventually I learned they key, patience, practice and a good identifying and how-to book or two. If I can do it, then anyone can and this book is great, it details each plant in full color with care, propagation, species, family, description, varieties and possible pests and diseases each particular plant is prone to. The nice thing it that it is a small pocket-sized book that you can flip through easily or take+AH4-+AH4- to the nursery or home improvement store with you, no searching through tons of verbage, it's right there. My copy is quite tagged and dog-eared! Since the common and folk names are given and indexed it's so easy to find a plant you don't know the official name for. The pictures are wonderful for those times you are given or buy a plant with no identifying markers to know what it is. I have identified and learned to care for quite a few "mystery plants" by finding them using just the+AH4-+AH4- pictures in this book. My plants all look great and this is the only book I use since it has it all, from start to finish, simply and concisely. A great guide overall, it may not have absolutely every houseplant under the sun (or window) but it has a lot, all the popular and readily-available ones and more than I will likely ever have.+AH4-