How to make a plant love you : cultivate green space in your home and heart / Summer Rayne Oakes ; illustrations by Mark Conlan.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York City : Optimism Press, [2019]Description: xxi, 183 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525540281
- 0525540288
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 635.965 O11 | Available | 33111009681152 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Summer Rayne Oakes keeps over 750 live houseplants spanning 400 species in her Brooklyn apartment. She is living proof that there's a strong psychological benefit to keeping plants. Taking care of other living beings is a basic human need. Urban Millennials with weaker community networks don't have the chance to do that. This book ties together all the obvious benefits of taking care of plants with a much bigger benefit: taking care of plants makes you a more life-giving person. Through colorful vignettes, Oakes shows how our chlorophyllous friends can be a gateway to a greater life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-175) and index.
The mass migration -- Our need for nature -- We only love what we notice -- When a tree falls in the forest -- A human history of houseplants -- Getting to know your plants -- How to make a plant love you -- Cultivating your personal green space.
"Summer Rayne Oakes, an urban houseplant expert and environmental scientist, is the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature indoors, according to a New York Times profile. Summer has managed to grow 1,000 houseplants in her Brooklyn apartment (and they're thriving!) Her secret? She approaches her relationships with plants as intentionally as if they were people." --Amazon.com.