Well written and detailed, Grow in the Dark is a book I highly recommend.

Synopsis:
Having a south-facing window doesn’t always guarantee you the best light to grow plants—especially if your window faces an alley or a tree-lined street. What’s the point of growing an urban jungle if tall buildings are blocking all your sunshine? This compact guide, designed to look as good on your shelf as it is useful, will help you learn how to make the most of your light so you can reap the physical and emotional benefits of living with plants.

Detailed profiles include tips on watering your plants just right, properly potting them, and troubleshooting pests and diseases. You’ll also learn which plants are safe to keep around your pets.

A comprehensive, easy to read book for growing plants that don't require a lot of light, perfect for anyone from beginners to expert green thumbs. There's a lot of helpful information packed in this book, from tips on how to improve your light to which plants are/aren't toxic to pets. At the end there's a list of 50 plants that will do well with less light- I can personally vouch for the pothos; I have one that's at least 25 years old, living happily in a northern facing window with indirect sunlight! A very good reference for anyone wanting to brighten their living space with happy plants!

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Sadly there was a problem with the way my computer opened this book and I was not able to appreciate it.
The cover for me was not appealing. If I was at a book store I would have not picked it up.
The information was good but I was not able to see the whole pictures.

I loved reading this book and enjoyed it so much. It is around 100 pages and the first half is about the basics about everything with pictures to further explain their point. The few books I read usually don't add pictures for every point but this book does for most of them. The second half has information about some plants that can live in a medium and low light apartment (since that's the focus of this book). The plants chosen were very pretty and I loved them. Definitely would recommend this to people who want plants but don't have much light coming through the window at home/apartment.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.

Wie man aus einem dunklen Daheim eine grüne Oase machen kann - oder fast.
Sehr geniale und einfache Ideen, um Pflanzen auch mit weniger Licht ein schönes Zuhause zu geben.
Mit tollen Fotos.

Grow in the Dark by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf is a very informative book for people who want to add plants to their homes.

A great book for those wishing to introduce plants into their households. I remember growing up having a spider plant at home and my nan having an African violet. In my adult years I've got nothing more than a plastic flower, much to my shame!

The book is split into four main chapters after starting with an Introduction. The first chapter Illumination explains the natural light that comes in through each house facing and unnatural light that plants can use. Hydration and Vitamins chapter covers watering and nutrition for your plant plus what to look for when its over or under watered.

The Maintenance chapter provides you with the knowledge of what to look for when choosing a plant plus how to pot it on and how to battle pests.

Finally the last chapter provides fifty-two plant ideas, including what light type it is, whether its safe for animals, its botanical name, when to water and the size it grows to. After each description is a colour photograph of the plant in question.I

This book has certainly given me the knowledge and confidence to go to the local garden centre and get a 'living' plant for my home.

I received this book from netgalley in return for a honest review.

As a beginner plant grower this was a great book to read. Informative and interesting. Living in a basement apartment with few windows, this helped me find the right plants for me. Love the pictures.

This book is useful for anyone wanting to grow houseplants. Lots of good photo's for illustration so you can understand what you're doing.

This is a gorgeous, helpful book to teach you all you need to know to grow houseplants even in low light conditions. The author is very knowledgeable and it's full of fantastic photos for inspiration. The book goes into details about how different facing windows give different light to plants, how to use things like mirrors and light walls to increase the light a plant gets, and things you might not think of like trimming bushes and trees outside, using skylights, and washing down leaves and windows to the plants are able to get more of the light they're exposed to.

There are sections on plant maintenance, watering, buying your plants, fertilizing and more. The final section is in-depth information on several dozen plants that work in medium to low light, with color photos of each and information on how much to water them, where they'll be happiest, if they are toxic to pets and so on.

My rating system:
1 = hated it
2 = it was okay
3 = liked it
4 = really liked it
5 = love it, plan to purchase, and/or would buy it again if it was lost

I read a digital ARC of the book for the purpose of review.

Grow in the Dark by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf is a great beginner book if you want to add something alive in your home. Not ready for a pet, but yearning to have something that you can take care of in your life, she will take you step by step through the right way to choose a plant that you will succeed with and enjoy. No matter what your confidence level is, you will feel like a pro when you get through with this book.

Grow in the Dark Chapters
Introduction - You can have a green thumb, and enjoy the benefits of having live plants in your home environment. Yes, plants can remove harmful chemicals in our air. They are called VOCs or volatile organic chemicals. Not only will they add elegance to your home, but you'll learn the other benefits that plants can create.
Illumination - She goes through all the options of light in a room (south, east, north and west) and describes the type of sunshine you can expect, and what that will mean for your plants. No more excuse if you don't have access to a nice sunny window, this section will tell you what you need to make it work.
Hydration and Vitamins - How much to water can make the health of your plant. This book walks you though what you need to know and shows you different examples of direct and indirect watering. Gone from home a lot, she has you covered with ways to wick-water your plants so they thrive when you are gone. Feeding and atmosphere are also covered so you are well educated to get your plants.
Maintenance - Once you have your plants in place and they have started to get use to their new environment, you'll get all the information you will need to keep your plants healthy and strong for the long run.
Plant Profile - This is the really fun part of the book. A color picture of each plant she suggests, and a easy graphic way to see what kind of light they thrive in and how much water they love. Everything from heartleaf philodendron to fairy washboard you will have all the details of each plant; botanical name, light, water, flowers, size, propagation, cultivars, and even pet safety. 

Grow in the Dark is full of beautiful photography to get you inspired and ready to move new plants into your home and enjoy them for year to come. No matter how much, or how little you know about growing houseplants, this book will have information to make your green thumb something to be proud of.

An interesting book full of useful information and advice. I liked how the book is organized and the pictures.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Great reference book for anyone who has or wants household plants. Personally, I have 15 plants and still need to be sure they are growing healthy and strong. But for me what is particularly good is I can use the information when I purchase my next plant. I think most people will appreciate that the listing for each plant remarks whether they are toxic to pets.
I received an arc from NetGalley in exchange for my volunteer review.

WOW. When I saw this title and what it was about I was really keen on reading the book. I have a darker hall and want to have some plants there.

The book is called Grow in the Dark but it is so much more. It has so many helpful hints and tips for all houseplant growing and all told in a friendly manner. The chapters are Illumination, Hydration andVitamins, Maintenance and finally plant profiles which help you decide which plants will grow under which lighting.

I have come away learning so much more about how to look after all my houseplants and now know which to buy for the darker areas. Definately a book I will use over and over for resources.

Thanks to NetGalley and Quatro Publishing Group for letting me read and review this title. ( All views are my own)

Growing plants in low light is always a challenge, and this charming book gives many tips and suggestions for doing so. Especially valuable is the list of plants that will tolerate a low light situation. Relevant and useful, this is a book for many gardeners and plant lovers alike.

There is a lot of great information in this book! I found a couple of plants that I want to get for my home. There isn't a lot of natural light at my workplace, so some of these would be great for there as well. This book had a lot of great information and I am looking forward to using it.

Grow in the Dark: How to Choose and Care for Low-Light Houseplants by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf puts the spotlight on 50 of the best houseplants you can grow in your dim or dark apartment. Having a south-facing window doesn’t always guarantee you the best light to grow plants—especially if your window faces an alley or a tree-lined street. What’s the point of growing an urban jungle if tall buildings are blocking all your sunshine? This compact guide, designed to look as good on your shelf as it is useful, will help you learn how to make the most of your light so you can reap the physical and emotional benefits of living with plants. Detailed profiles include tips on watering your plants just right, properly potting them, and troubleshooting pests and diseases. You’ll also learn which plants are safe to keep around your pets.

Grow in the Dark is an informative read for those looking to keep their house plants alive, and to figure out what plants will best survive in your available spaces. The information is well organized and laid out in accessible segments with some labeled images to break up the amount of text. I found the information to be well researched and useful, but lacking the conversational tone or humor that I tend to enjoy woven through such reference material to make the read slightly less dense. This is more a point of personal preference that ban issue, I am sure there are those that prefer this straightforward style. I think this book is a good reference for readers to have handy when planning their plant purchasing and placement, or for interior designers to reference when planning to add plant life to a space. However, I think it is a better purchase for a library or professional that might regularly need the information than for a personal library.

As you would guess from the cute title, this book contains an informative directory of houseplants that tolerate low light, complete with information about their care and relevant properties such as toxicity to pets. This plant list is well-presented and nicely laid out. It might have made sense to group plants by type, so that all the ferns appeared together, etc., but the alphabetical order used by the author does make them easy to look up. This section is preceded by some overly long introductory chapters with overly obvious advice on plant care. Some of the content is just silly; for example, we are told that a leaning plant might be "suffering from phototropism," as if that were a problem and not just a natural property of plants. I would skip this material and go straight to the specific plant info. Unfortunately, here the photos don't do justice to the text. The descriptions frequently cite some special property of a plant that makes it interesting or desirable (fuzzy rhizomes, variegated leaf color, flower spike, etc.), but the particular specimens depicted often fail to exemplify these traits (or the photos fail to capture them). Instead, they seem like whatever specimen of that plant somebody happened to have in the house. In addition, although the pots, stands, and walls may be different, each photo is taken the same way: under harsh light with a prominent and distracting shadow on the wall behind it. This book would be helped immensely by photos with better lighting and a closer focus on each plant.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance digital review copy.

Fabulous book both the for the newly motivated to the experienced indoor gardener. The general information at the beginning is really clear, interesting and very easy to read and understand. There is a lot of information with lots of photos and examples. The second part of the book describes the various plants that can be grown indoors with information on light and water requirements, its size and how propagation can be achieved and importantly also if the plant is toxic to pets or humans.
This is a very modern book, beautifully presented and very now.

This book is amazing for the indoor, basement apartment gardener. It tells you how to wring every drop of sun light from the light you do have, whether by using mirrors, or washing your windows. A lot of care went into the recommendations given and the book is full of useful tips. It even features an easy way to duplicate the effects of those self-watering wick containers so you can vacation without worry. If you live in a dark place with limited window space, this is the book you should check out. I know for sure that I'll be referring to it again this season.