Presents step-by-step instructions on the techniques of forcing a bulb into bloom by simulating autumn, winter, and spring in an accelerated time frame

Presents information about gardening indoors, discussing how to choose the right tools, start plants from seeds, and follow safety rules, with instructions for creating a plant container and setting up a mini desert garden.

"This book teaches you everything you need to know to succeed in raising some very interesting houseplants. After following the easy steps, you'll know how to care for anything you choose to plant, from flowers like lilies to cacti, mushrooms, and even carnivorous plants and cocoa beans. In no time at all, you'll be proudly showing off all the beautiful and different (and sometimes even funny!) plants in your home!"--

Did you know you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need throughout the entire year - including the winter months - with no lights, no pumps, no greenhouse, and little more than a cupboard and a windowsill? Growing "soil sprouts" employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots and provides delicious, healthy salad greens in less than ten days at a faction of the cost of buying them at the market.

Discusses how to care for plants indoors, including such aspects as light, temperature, humidity, pests, diseases, equipment, and how to choose and grow your own plants.

Includes garden food recipes, gardening facts, planning, outdoor projects (build a compost), and craft ideas.

Garden designer P. Allen Smith is best known for the beauty he creates outdoors. Now, for the first time, he has turned his attention to the indoors. Whether it's growing a citrus tree in your kitchen, or using boxed plants to decorate your dining table, Allen's 65 fail-safe projects are pure inspiration for every room in your home--including the often overlooked entranceway. He shows how to choose the right containers for the greatest impact, decorate...

More than 1500 illustrations combine with concise, expert advice to ensure success with nearly every type of house plant, including flowering and foliage plants, indoor trees, ferns, mosses, creepers, cacti, and other succulents.