Lisa Eldred Steinkopf - Bloom: The Secrets of Growing Flowering Houseplants Year-Round

The secrets of GROWING
FLOWERING HOUSEPLANTS
year-round

LISA ELDRED STEINKOPF

The Houseplant Guru

Lisa is the original houseplant influencer. She has paved the way for countless people to feel comfortable having easy-care foliage in their homes. Now, she continues to guide us in adding color indoors with this beautiful book. It inspires, educates, and most of all, encourages a new obsession for plant parents: flowers!

Katie Dubow, president of Garden Media Group and QVC guest host

This is a treasure trove of information thats both up to date and in depth.

Nancy Szerlag, garden columnist for The Detroit News

As an owner of a houseplant boutique, we get lots of requests for certain plantslow-light plants, beginnerfriendly plants, and lately an influx of plants that can be kept indoors that flower. Lisas book covers everything anyone needs to know about flowering houseplants and is a quintessential guide to anyone looking to add color and perpetual summer to their home.

Johanna C. Dominguez, owner of Put A Plant On It houseplant boutique in Buffalo, New York

Lisas book provides lots of practical tips for growing flowering plants indoors. She provides the detailed plant care information needed for success that is often missing in similar books. Beginner and experienced indoor gardeners will find this book useful. Whether adding new flowering plants to the indoor garden or nurturing existing plants, Lisas advice will prove beneficial.

Melinda Myers, author and television and radio host

The Houseplant Guru has done it again, this time with Bloom. Lisa has created an easy-to-read-and-use reference (no matter your plant-parent level of experience) that encourages and guides the reader on how to add a little flower power to your houseplant collection for year-round living color. Those with pets and children will especially appreciate the plant toxicity level rating.

Maria Zampini, president of UpShoot LLC and co-author of Garden-Pedia: An A-to-Z Guide to Gardening Terms

Houseplants that flower dont get enough celebration because we are so often distracted by their beautiful tropical foliage. Lisa puts blooms in the well-deserved spotlight and walks you through exactly how to enjoy year-round blossoms in your home. In addition to providing all the information needed to care for these plants, I loved the Flower Portraits, which introduced me to so many different blooming houseplants I need to add to my wish list!

Maria Failla, host of the Bloom and Grow Radio podcast and author of Growing Joy

Bloom is a handy resource for new and experienced plant parents looking to add color to their homes with beautiful flowering plants. From tried-and-true varieties to fresh picks that may be familiar to many, this book is sure to help anyone select the right flowering plants for their home (or office) and keep them healthy and beautiful.

Justin Hancock, horticulturist at Costa Farms

Lisa is a very well-informed writer and collector who does a wonderful job of sharing her knowledge at a level that everyone can understand. Flowering plants are often overlooked for the home, making this book a valuable addition to any plant lovers bookshelf.

Jared and Liz Hughes, owners of Groovy Plants Ranch

I confess! I am far more at home in my outside garden than I am tending plants indoors. From orchids and African violets to amaryllis and kalanchoe, I need help. And now I have it. Lisa always explains what to do in an easy-to-understand style. In this book, she also explains why I should be doing it. The in-depth discussions are enlightening, and the plant-by-plant guides are invaluable.

Allan Armitage, award-winning educator, horticulturist, and author of Armitages Garden Perennials and many other books

A re the only flowers youve ever had in your home the type that come in a plastic sleeve, accompanied by a box of chocolates and a card? Thats a wonderful way to have flowers for a week or two in your home, but dont you wish you could have flowers in the house all year long, without buying bouquets of them? Or maybe you have purchased flowering houseplants, only to never see a blossom again after the initial bloom. Or maybe the buds all fell off as soon as you got them home. This can be discouraging. Yet, there are plants out there that will bloom in your home without too much fuss. Foliage plants certainly have their place as the backbone of any houseplant display because they are the perfect foil for flowering houseplants. Green plants, pink plants, variegated plants, and black plants are all lovely, but if you are looking for something a bit more exciting and colorful, then its time to bring flowers into your life all year long with flowering houseplants.

My mom always had her fern in the east window with an enormous spider plant hanging next to it. I still have that fern today, now over sixty-four years old. And I remember when I was younger, riding my bicycle to Grandmas house a half mile (1 km) away and seeing her east windowsills filled with African violets in bloom along with her foliage plants. I love my fern, but those African violets were so beautiful with their pink and blue flowersand it seemed they were always blooming. I wish Grandma could see the variety of African violets there are today because she would be amazed. She fussed over those plants, making sure they had everything they needed, and she always had a leaf or two rooting in an aluminumfoil-covered baby jar. I was young and didnt pay too much attention to the propagation process, but there were always violets blooming; those small flowers helped me learn to love flowering houseplants and gave me the desire to always have blooming plants on my windowsills.

Grandma Eldreds African violets were always in bloom on her east kitchen windowsill.

One of the most popular flowering plants (or maybe I should say most well-known?) is the peace lily, or