--- product_id: 113470836 title: "The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family" price: "AR$70360" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/113470836-the-new-plant-parent-develop-your-green-thumb-and-care store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family **Price:** AR$70360 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family - **How much does it cost?** AR$70360 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/113470836-the-new-plant-parent-develop-your-green-thumb-and-care) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng’s New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. “While this book does cover how to care for and propagate plants, its real value comes from helping readers understand the whys behind plant care. By learning to care for a plant holistically, and tapping into how each plant would grow in nature, you’ll be able to raise happier, healthier plants.” — Growfully The creator of House Plant Journal teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all the basics of growing house plants: Finding the right light Watering Fertilizing Containers Pruning and propagation Pests Helpful tools Recommended species And more! Cheng writes, “My goal in writing this book is to empower you to understand your home’s growing conditions, to be observant, and to accept what nature has in store. . . . I want to help you break away from old habits and ways of thinking that hinder you from truly enjoying plant parenthood.” Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for thousands of indoor gardeners. Includes Color Photographs Review: Great gift for your friend with an unhealthy indoor plant obsession (or a treat to yourself)!! - I have over 100 plants in my apartment, but I don't consider myself a plant expert. I have been given a few different plant books as gifts from friends (who know I'm a crazy plant lady) and each has its own strengths. Some are well-designed and pleasing to flip through, others look more like catalogues but are packed with useful information, and still others are written more like novels, expressing a deep appreciation for plants. I would hands down recommend "The New Plant Parent" as a first indoor plant book over the other ones (that isn't to discourage you from buying other ones - this just hits plant basics more explicitly than other books I have). This is a really great book for anyone that wants to learn more about keeping indoor plants or anyone that is looking for a friend who has a seemingly unhealthy addiction to plants. I've been following Daryl Cheng's instagram (@houseplantjournal) for a while - his book is just as aesthetically pleasing and packed with helpful tips and explanations (e.g. "three practical watering methods") as his Instagram. The added benefit is that his voice carries over in the book so that it feels like you're sitting in a plant-filled room watching him show you what to do for your plants. The book starts with plant basics (lighting, watering, soil, pruning, dealing with different types of pests) and then describes how to care for some of the most popular indoor plants... and it's packed with photos that actually show you what he describes in the text. EXCELLENT gift for a friend, but also a wonderful way to treat yourself! :) You won't regret it! Review: Amazing book for beginner to intermediate plant parents! - This is easily one of my top two favorite plant care books. As a plant collector with well over 100 houseplants, I am always looking for more ways to learn about them and how to care for them and keep them happy. Cheng is obviously very well experienced in the houseplant world, and does an incredible job sharing his wealth of information with us. This book covers a very broad range of topics, from watering how-tos, determining what type of lighting you have, soil and soil amendments, necessary and helpful plant-care tools, propagation methods, etc. Cheng does a wonderful job of giving great detail and scientific information about everything he writes, without making it challenging or confusing. He gives great examples of different plant care situations that help demonstrate the information he provides, and help us to apply the information to our own plants. If you’re wanting to learn how to better care for your plants, you absolutely must read this book! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #59,129 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11 in Urban Gardening (Books) #21 in Container Gardening (Books) #23 in House Plant Gardening | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,896 Reviews | ## Images ![The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XHBTcJekL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great gift for your friend with an unhealthy indoor plant obsession (or a treat to yourself)!! *by Y***N on June 11, 2020* I have over 100 plants in my apartment, but I don't consider myself a plant expert. I have been given a few different plant books as gifts from friends (who know I'm a crazy plant lady) and each has its own strengths. Some are well-designed and pleasing to flip through, others look more like catalogues but are packed with useful information, and still others are written more like novels, expressing a deep appreciation for plants. I would hands down recommend "The New Plant Parent" as a first indoor plant book over the other ones (that isn't to discourage you from buying other ones - this just hits plant basics more explicitly than other books I have). This is a really great book for anyone that wants to learn more about keeping indoor plants or anyone that is looking for a friend who has a seemingly unhealthy addiction to plants. I've been following Daryl Cheng's instagram (@houseplantjournal) for a while - his book is just as aesthetically pleasing and packed with helpful tips and explanations (e.g. "three practical watering methods") as his Instagram. The added benefit is that his voice carries over in the book so that it feels like you're sitting in a plant-filled room watching him show you what to do for your plants. The book starts with plant basics (lighting, watering, soil, pruning, dealing with different types of pests) and then describes how to care for some of the most popular indoor plants... and it's packed with photos that actually show you what he describes in the text. EXCELLENT gift for a friend, but also a wonderful way to treat yourself! :) You won't regret it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing book for beginner to intermediate plant parents! *by R***. on August 12, 2023* This is easily one of my top two favorite plant care books. As a plant collector with well over 100 houseplants, I am always looking for more ways to learn about them and how to care for them and keep them happy. Cheng is obviously very well experienced in the houseplant world, and does an incredible job sharing his wealth of information with us. This book covers a very broad range of topics, from watering how-tos, determining what type of lighting you have, soil and soil amendments, necessary and helpful plant-care tools, propagation methods, etc. Cheng does a wonderful job of giving great detail and scientific information about everything he writes, without making it challenging or confusing. He gives great examples of different plant care situations that help demonstrate the information he provides, and help us to apply the information to our own plants. If you’re wanting to learn how to better care for your plants, you absolutely must read this book! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great perspective, already shared with several people *by A***O on September 13, 2019* I started following Darryl on Instagram under @houseplantjournal by recommendation when I was discussing my plant woes. It had useful tips, but also just a refreshing framework to discuss plants and their care--especially his perspective on light and how we should generally be using that as the lens to evaluate all other factors, like soil and watering. After a few weeks with a cat palm that started failing, I knew I wanted to figure this whole plant thing out once or for all, and I needed to just dive in and get the full lesson. I ordered his book and a light meter immediately, and read through it in about an hour. Somehow this book made the case for a very simplistic, easy to understand conceptual framework that I hadn't heard before about plant care, while helping you to understand how all the individual factors fit together. It's not just black/white directives like "don't overwater!" He talks about how to understand light, plants optimal growth, survival mode, a plants satisfactory lifespan, etc. I gave this to two people already--one who is an experienced plant owner and one who is not. 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