You're Overwatering It!: A Plant Guru’s Guide to Houseplants by Jonny Balchandani

A maximalist, humorous guide to growing and caring for houseplants—whatever your space, whatever your personality—from a plant fanatic who has transformed his home into an indoor jungle. Water your plant every 7 days? Rubbish. Misting increases humidity? Barely. All plants go dormant in winter? Not if you control their environment. And don’t even get me started on the "just put an ice cube on your orchid" people. You monsters. New from social media sensation The Bearded Plantaholic (known as Jonny Balchandani IRL), You're Overwatering It! helps readers choose houseplants to fit their lifestyle, personality, and taste—leading them to plants that will work for them, rather than what’s in style. This fun, funny, and gamified guide helps readers perfect their plant parenting skills, working through levels from Plant Noob to Budding Botanist, Plant Whisperer to Plant Curator, and then finally to Plant Mystic. This is a wildly comprehensive yet eminently accessible guidebook from a peer expert, with a fresh voice that brings humor and irreverence to the indoor gardening space. Readers will learn how to grow plants better, what they're doing wrong, and why to ditch the tempting yet distracting myths that send many houseplant growers badly astray. Balchandani teaches plant stewards not just how to care for their beloved houseplants, but how to understand them—so caring for them stops being a chore and starts becoming second nature. Read more

From the Publisher Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers Gardening Under Lights: The Complete Guide for Indoor Growers The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do (Science for... A Botanist's Vocabulary: 1300 Terms Explained and Illustrated (Science for Ga... Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Customer Reviews 354 423 1,155 575 402 Price $16 24 $26 53 $14 98 $12 57 $15 99 “Accessible and extensive advice on the propagation and care of houseplants, vegetables and flowers, with illustrative photographs and diagrams.” —Gardens Illustrated “The definitive primer on indoor gardening.” —The Designer “Anyone purchasing a greenhouse should read this book first.” —Home Greenhouse Magazine “Makes the science of plant processes accessible to home gardeners.” —The American Gardener “If the meanings of words like rhizomes, xeric, or rosettes do not immediately come to mind, you might be interested in another terrific book of the season, A Botanist’s Vocabulary.”—Better Homes and Country Gardens