How to Make Your Houseplants Love You: A Plant Parent’s Guide to Making Your Collection Thrive

Beautifully packaged with stunning illustrations and photographs, this is the perfect gift for the plant lover in your life

Covering 50 plant species, this is the complete guide to caring for your houseplants, from plant expert Joe Bagley (@ukhouseplants).

Unlock the secrets to thriving house plants with this comprehensive guide. Organized into six chapters based on your plants’ needs, this question-and-answer guide serves as an indispensable companion for emerging and experienced plant enthusiasts alike.

How to Make Your House Plants Love You not only provides concise and expert solutions to these questions but also offers practical tips, personalized advice, and stunning photography and illustrations to inspire readers on their journey to becoming successful plant parents.

Joe Bagley delivers information in an unadorned, easy to follow manner, including nuggets of plant-specific natural history, plants’ behavioral quirks and curveball tips. This book will provide a new, distinctive experience for the reader as they journey through each question-and-answer scenario to become a house plant expert. Whether you’re seeking to revive an inherited specimen or to create a lush indoor oasis, this book is your ultimate guide to leading a leafier life.

Born and raised in Leicestershire, Joe Bagley’s unique perspective on indoor horticulture started at the young age of 13, when his grandmother gave him his first few house plants that kickstarted his now very large collection. Joe’s journey into the world of writing began as a personal passion, and he has written more than 300 articles on all things to do with indoor horticulture. His unique ability to deliver information on hundreds of house plants through a standardized structure has earned him over 5,000 daily visitors to his website, ukhouseplants.com. Joe has worked with the RHS and has been a BBC Gardeners’ World Live Expert at their yearly flower show. As a debut author, Joe Bagley brings a fresh and insightful voice to the house plant scene, aiming to educate and entertain readers with a collective love of all things house plant.