Bloom: The secrets of growing flowering houseplants year-round by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf

In Bloom, The Houseplant Guru Lisa Eldred Steinkopf unleashes all the secrets on how to grow dozens of indoor plants that produce colorful, intricate, and sometimes fragrant blooms. *Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Silver Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category* If you’ve ever struggled to get an orchid or African violet to rebloom, or if you’ve hesitated to add plants like hoya, anthurium, Madagascar jasmine, or clivia to your windowsill for fear you may never see their gorgeous flowers, Lisa reveals the insider strategies you need to encourage these plants to strut their stuff. In her signature warm and beginner-friendly tone, she introduces simple techniques you can use to encourage bloom alongside all the ins and outs of caring for these beautiful plants. Lush, full-color photography accompanies each in-depth plant profile. Upping your houseplant game doesn’t have to involve spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on the next trendy leafy-green foliage plant. If you want to expand both your growing skills and the number of specimens in your houseplant family Read more

From the Publisher The definitive guide to caring for dozens of unique and beautiful flowering houseplants. Starfish Flower The stapeliad family of plants are succulents with unusual star-shaped flowers and mottled petals. Though this family is known for their foul-smelling flowers, little aroma emanates from this one. African Violet African violets have certainly received bad press in the past, touted as “grandma” plants, boring, and dusty. Today through hybridization, the choices of colors, foliage types, and the combinations of the two are almost endless. The best part about them is they are easy to bring into bloom and you can have blooms on your windowsill all year long! Golden Rat Tail Cactus This unusual cactus is from the forest cliffs of Bolivia where it cascades over the rocks looking like a giant yellow spider. It is an easy cactus to grow in our homes but needs to be placed in as much light as you can give it.