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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what´s in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow.

If you wonder what the crispy bits at the leaf edges are, why the stalks are looking spindly, or why your plant looks brown even though you´ve watered it, How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will explain - and fix - your horticultural woes. Understand how much light, water, heat, and humidity your plant needs with quick tips on what your houseplant does and doesn´t like.

Learn to spot the danger signs and how to rescue an unhealthy plant, and follow easy advice to pick the top plants for your bathroom, cold rooms, desk, and windowsill to create your own indoor oasis.

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Veronica Peerless is a gardening writer and editor, both online and in print. She is Contributing Editor at gardenersworld.com and was previously Deputy Editor at Which? Gardening magazine. She contributes to several gardening and lifestyle magazines, including The English Garden magazine and the Garden Design Journal. Veronica acted as a horticultural consultant on DK´s The Gardener´s Year, a role in which she both shaped and wrote content for the book.

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