Rose Ray

Learn how to care for your tropical plants, succulents, cacti and air plants with this beautiful but practical guide to indoor plants.These gorgeous, fashionable plants are handsome, hardy and perfect for urban living and this comprehensive companion is all you need to learn how to nurture and enjoy them, as well as how to arrange them stylishly in your home.House plant specialists Caro Langton and Rose Ray offer up their encyclopaedic knowledge of house plants and their care in this beautiful guide. Explaining how to look after individual plants – running through the soil, watering, light, food and more – House of Plants also shows you how to take cuttings to share with friends; make gifts, terrariums and displays; and suggests other ways to make these fantastic plants part of your life.Whether you are looking for a first house plant to decorate a new space, or are a veteran indoor gardener seeking new design inspiration, this book will give you everything you need to grow a rich and verdant array of indoor plants.Celebrating ten years, the original, best-selling book is now updated with the latest information on sustainable house plants, brand new projects and even more plant profiles.

Hold the joys of a wild, secret garden in the palm of your hand with Into Green, a pocket garden of inspiration to soothe the soul and harness the creative powers of nature. From the founders of Studio Ro Co in London, this inspirational primer is the perfect companion for any nature lover, from urban jungle curators to backyard gardeners. Filled with dreamy illustrations, reflective stories, and enticing interactive prompts, this pocket garden is for plant lovers looking to bring the outside in. From the myriad of ways that plants enrich our lives, from cleaning the air to sparking creativity and forging lifelong friendships and connections, Into Green will inspire and delight.

Into Green is an inspiring collection of projects, wisdom and ideas that guide you to explore the natural world around you. “Brimful with accessible and inventive ideas, this beautiful book provides an inspiring and practical guide to fostering calm and connectedness.” - Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well Gardened Mind This brilliant book invites you to journey into nature, no matter how urban your environment or green your neighbourhood. This is a book of projects, wisdom and ideas that not only inspire you to get outside and enjoy this beautiful planet, but to find meaningful interactions with nature that cultivate a happier headspace. Authors Caro Langton and Rose Ray, founders of Ro Co @studio.roco, explore how being surrounded by green can bring you calm, hope, bravery, wonder and a sense of belonging, and help you connect with green so that you can expand and retreat, grow and disappear, and to ultimately find and lose yourself in nature. This book teaches you how nature can help you build confidence, believe in yourself, and travel a path that is authentic to you.Into Green full of simple rituals to incorporate into your everyday life, as well as facts, wonders and science that spark awe (which almost always lead to seeing the world differently) as well as creative projects that build a confident relationship with nature, from creating a wildflower window box to dyeing fabrics with plant materials.

Det här är den heltäckande handboken som visar allt om att rota, gro och dela växter. På ett inspirerande sätt får vi se hur man tar sticklingar och planterar nya skott. Vi får också lära oss att dela växter vid rötterna och odla nya rotsystem i luften. Boken visar på ett enkelt sätt förökningsmetoder som passar alla krukväxter. Här finns också ekologiska roterande kompostrecept, smarta beskärningsmetoder och praktiska projekt som hjälper alla att bättre ta hand om och dela med sig av sina växter.De senaste åren har intresset för krukväxter exploderat och många har upptäckt hur roligt det är att själva ta skott och dela sina växter med andra. Det är en helt organisk form av växtförädling och det finns nästan ingen bättre gå-bort-present än en välmående stickling.

Life with a potted plant is undeniably better. And better yet is the ability to grow and replicate new, healthy houseplants without ever having to visit a garden centre again. Learn to share, swap and celebrate the miraculous methods of multiplying all of your favourites at almost no cost at all.And here’s the secret: it’s really, really easy.Plants are designed to multiply. They spread their roots, send off inquisitive shoots, and regenerate themselves in all sorts of exciting and unexpected ways without any help. Even for the beginner indoor gardener, a single leaf can hold enough life to be successfully grown into a brand new plant.With Root, Nurture, Grow, you’ll quickly discover how to propagate any houseplant, take cuttings, cultivate runners and offsets, divide plants at the roots and even grow brand new root systems in the air. You’ll learn pruning methods that produce no waste, organic rooting medium recipes, and eventually enjoy gifting and swapping newly grown greenery with friends, family and other houseplant hoarders you’ll meet along the way.As well as myriad propagation methods, the book includes practical DIY projects to better nurture and display your plant family, including a homemade propagation chamber and simple self-watering planters.

Et hus med planter som puster og gir liv er en drøm for mange. I denne boken får du tips og råd til hva plantene dine trenger av lys, vann og stell. Og dessuten: Hvor i huset ditt de vil trives best. Hvordan du får dem til å ta seg ut fra sin beste side. Hvilke planter som er lettstelte, og hvilke som kanskje trenger litt mer tålmodighet. Boken er fylt med vakre interiør- og plantebilder, enkle og dekorative gjør-det-selv-prosjekter og spennende alternativer til de mest kjente stueplantene, selv om de selvfølgelig også er med.