PLANTSCAPER'S GUIDE

to Interior Landscape Maintenance 

by Joelle Steele

2008, 3rd ed.

Joelle's #1 Best-Seller!

4,000+ copies sold to date!

NOW AVAILABLE IN SPANISH!

* The most widely used interiorscape maintenance manual in the world

* Used by interior landscape companies everywhere to train techs on-the-job

* Used by corporate in-house maintenance technicians

* Used by colleges and universities that teach interiorscaping

Plantscaper's Guide was designed specifically for interiorscaper training and on-the-job use by interior landscape technicians. It addresses the most common problems that come up during the course of weekly plant maintenance, and teaches you how to maintain tropical plants indoors, including dracaenas, ferns, palm trees, cacti and succulents, pothos, cissus, ficus trees, marantas, aglaonemas, and almost any other kind of indoor plant you can think of!

Plantscaper's Guide overcomes the problems of similar indoor plant care books that are either overly lengthy and technical, or overly simplistic, by providing you with just the right amount of technical information to understand plant physiology and apply it in the field.

In particular, Plantscaper’s Guide emphasizes the importance of learning how to water correctly. In fact, this book contains the entire content of the now out-of-print Indoor Watering Techniques. You won't find any of those unnecessary and highly inaccurate "watering guides" in this book. Instead, you will learn how to water correctly, which will significantly reduce your plant losses. You will not only learn how to water, but you will also learn about the pH of water and the content of water, and how each affects the ability of a plant to utilize the nutrients you apply in the form of fertilizers.

And, speaking of fertilizers, you will learn about plant nutrition, what fertilizer does to a plant, and how to read and interpret a fertilizer label. You'll learn about other things as well, such as soil, pests, light, and temperature.

The second half of Plantscaper's Guide contains profiles of 85 species of plants, along with 68 accompanying plant photos. There are also four pages of Q&A material covering some frequently asked plant care questions from interiorscape technicians.

This book is very lightweight and easily portable, and because it gets a lot of use, it's been spiral-bound, so that you can open it up flat, again and again, without ever damaging the binding.

Here's what you'll find in Plantscaper's Guide:

Introduction
Tools, Equipment and Supplies

Client Relations

     Put It In Writing - Respect - Tact and Diplomacy
Introduction to Plant Physiology

Water and Humidity

     pH - Water Types and Their Effects on Plants - Water Damage -

     When to Water - Watering Schedules - How to Water -

     Drip Irrigation - Water Temperature - Overwatering -

     Underwatering - Tips for Subirrigation Users - Subirrigation

     Systems - Living/Green Walls
Potting Mixes, Soils, & Transplanting

     Potting Mixes - Retention and Drainage - Cultivation -

     Transplanting - Texture - 12 Basic Soil Textural Mixes
Nutrition

     Macronutrients (Essential Elements) - Micronutrients (Trace

     Elements) - Selecting a Fertilizer - When to Fertilize - Applying

     Fertilizer - How to Read a Fertilizer Label - Overfertilization -

     Symptoms of Nutrient Deficiencies
Light

     Too Little, Too Much - Light Requirements - Supplemental

     Lighting
Temperature

     Temperature Requirements - Heat or Cold Injury
Pests and Diseases

     Common Plant Pests - Symptoms of Common Plant Problems
Grooming and Pruning

Containers and Topdressing

Hydroponics & Hydroculture

     Hydroculture Today - Containers - Water Quality - Nutrition -

     Grooming - Methods - Seasonal Care

Plant Care Profiles

     Dracaenas - Pleomeles - Corylines - Ferns - Ficus Trees -

     Conifers - Aralias - Palms - Bamboos - Grasses - Cycas - Musa -

     Strelitzia - Ivies - Vines - Shrubs - Cacti - Succulents - Flowering

     Plants

Q & A

Resource Guide

Plantscaper's Guide

to Interior Landscape Maintenance

HS-001, 88 pgs, 5.5 x 8.5, spiral-bound,

softcover, B&W photos/drawings

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