Dramatic and Moody Plants Guide: The Complete Care Growing Handbook for Dark Foliage Houseplants: Plant Profiles, Light Water Charts, Propagation, Troubleshooting, Gothic Styling

Your near-black Alocasia is turning green. Here is what to do about it. The dark plant shelf is full of beautiful books about folklore, poison, and gothic garden lore. None of them answers the question people actually ask three months after they get the plant home: why the leaf they paid a premium for is now the colour of an ordinary houseplant, and whether anything can bring it back. This book answers it. Dark leaves are dark because of a pigment the plant manufactures in response to light, at a rate your conditions set. Learn to control that rate and you control the colour. Everything else in these pages follows from that one fact.WHAT YOU GET Twenty-two dark plants profiled in full, each with the light class it actually needs, a watering method, a humidity figure, a temperature range, a substrate recipe, mature size, toxicity status, and an honest difficulty rating. Alocasia 'Black Velvet' and 'Black Magic'. Philodendron 'Black Cardinal', 'Dark Lord', and melanochrysum. Raven ZZ. Black Coral snake plant. Begonia rex 'Black Mambo'. Geogenanthus, dark Anthurium, Hoya, Oxalis, Aeonium 'Zwartkop', and more. A free way to measure the light in your own rooms using a phone, and a four-class system that every plant profile is keyed to. Thirty-one step-by-step procedures with materials lists, timings, and a stated result so you can check rather than guess. Fourteen decision boxes for the moments when the right move depends on what you are looking at. Eleven troubleshooting boxes covering what to do when it has already gone wrong. The chapter nobody else writes: why heavy feeding makes a dark plant greener rather than darker, what light can and cannot recover, and how to hold colour through the winter that defeats most growers. Propagation by five methods, with honest success rates. Pest identification for the four organisms that cause almost every infestation. A root rot rescue procedure with real recovery odds at each stage of loss.WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT >Written for the reader who already loves the look, and now wants the plants to live. ADD TO CART NOW!!!