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A Review of Tiny Plants: Discover the Joys of Growing and Collecting Itty-Bitty HouseplantsWe link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission.
If you’ve been wanting to garden indoors, but don’t really have a lot of free time or room for plants, have we got a book for you!
“Tiny Plants: Discover the Joys of Growing and Collecting Itty-Bitty Houseplants,” available via Amazon, by ASHS Certified Professional Horticulturist Leslie F. Halleck, is a guide to cultivating nature’s smallest species in containers indoors.
Halleck offers both information and inspiration for current collectors of miniature flora, as well as aspiring “plant parents” with limited space and time, and a passion for “cute” botanical specimens.
This book is a recipient of the 2022 Media Awards Silver Medal of Achievement presented by GardenComm: Garden Communicators International award in the Publisher/General Readership category.
In this article, we take an in-depth look at this exciting new book.
Join us!
Here’s the lineup:
Get ready for a close look at a whole new world of gardening.
What Are Tiny Plants?The “itty-bitty houseplants” Halleck finds so cute and irresistible are not miniaturized versions of full-sized flora that are pruned to control their natural growth habits, as with bonsai.
Instead, they are fully-formed, unaltered species of small stature that may go unnoticed in the wild, unless one seeks them out with deliberation and passion.
First ImpressionsMy first glimpse into the book was at random.
I turned to a page near the middle and found a photo of a seemingly giant, open pair of pruning snips pointed menacingly at a tiny, African violet-type flower that actually appeared to be leaning
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