Fun book with great information. It was easy to read and follow. I love plants and have them throughout my house. Some survive and some don't. I feel more prepared to buy more plants.

Definitely a fun little book that has good information for new plant parents. I do wish there was more info but otherwise it was good! Thank you NetGalley for showing me this book as I will recommend it to those just starting out with plants

This is a great book for plant lovers it is a beautifully illustrated guide to help you figure out the right plants for your space and overall plant care. It also is a great guide to decorating with plants.

Great guide for beginner plant parents! I really enjoyed all of the tips and definitely added some plants to by purchase list, thanks to this book I will be fully prepared to care for them when they come into my home

3.5 stars

This is a good introduction to houseplant care and what type of houseplants do well in different spaces of the home (hence the title!). I've read several books like this one since the start of the pandemic and the houseplant craze, and this one is definitely the middle of the road. While helpful, at times the text was a little dull, but overall it was informative.

This book has made me a plant mom and now I need a plant in every room. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is starting out with house plants. I have learned so much from this book and will be getting a physical copy of this book.

Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom by Emily L. Hay Hinsdale was a timely read for me as I have recently begun to try and ‘green’ my thumb a bit. Informative and fun read. #NetGalley

What an enjoyable read! The writing was light and informative, the descriptions clear and concise, and really presented the information in a friendly and fun manner. Highly recommend for someone who wants to jump on the plant bandwagon but has no idea what they are doing.

This is a great book!! Clear, concise and entertaining while being knowledgeable and useful. I know why you never put a cactus in the bathroom. Do you?

This is a cute little book for beginning plant owners. I consider myself an intermediate plant owner so the majority of this content wasn't new to me. That being said it's would be a great gift, along with a nice plant for a housewarming present. I liked how the author went room by room through a home and gave tips for how each plant could thrive or decline there. I was hoping for more pictures, but there is a lot of info about how different plants grow.

"Personal success, that loosely defined concept, comes in many forms. In the end, we decide it for ourselves."

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Thank you to NetGalley and Tiller Press for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I went on NetGalley recently specifically looking for some sort of houseplant guide. Despite having a few already, I was curious to learn how to better take care for them individually instead of just... watering them often and hoping for the best.

This book follows a comedic narrative with different facts about houseplants, explaining different categories of plants, what plants might look best in different rooms around the house, and other useful tidbits of plant information.

I took one star off the book strictly based on the e-book edition. Obviously ARCs often come with typos or errors, but the formatting in the book was so off that I struggled to not DNF it. There are small paragraphs or bulleted lists that I imagine would go into a pop-up box of sorts on the side of the text like in a textbook. Unfortunately, in the e-book, they were pasted into the text, and usually mid-sentence of an unrelated paragraph. I struggled to keep up with where sentences began and ended nearly every chapter.

This book is very humorous. Please do not misunderstand, I found myself laughing or chuckling as I learned about plants. What I did not enjoy was the frequency of the jokes perhaps. Often, I found that a paragraph was mostly a plant-based pun or joke with very little actual information.

My favorite part of this book was useful information that applied to many commonplace plants, such as how to propagate herbs and how to properly hang air plants. I also had no idea there were different kinds of soil to purchase for different plants! Even while reading this book, I've noticed myself at the store and being able to identify a few plants I wouldn't have been able to before.

I would recommend this to readers who are beginners/amateurs to owning a plant and who enjoy puns and frequent jokes.

Really helpful for those who want to bring plants indoors and gives a few plants that could go into a number of rooms at home. Introductory information that starts the reader off.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. As a new houseplant mother, I found that I really enjoyed this book though it made me want to go out and get lots more.

Enjoyed this thoroughly. Great intro book for someone getting into plants. Would make a great gift as well.

An awesome resource! I have a bunch of these plants already at home so it was good to get a refresher on the best care techniques.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review!

Let me start by stating my experience with houseplants: I've killed a few over the years, but am at the point where I keep my plants happy most of the time and rarely have a lost cause. These days, I'm confident enough to buy plants that are not labelled "beginner" and rescue friends' dying succulents. On the other hand, I don't consider myself "advanced" in plant care and still have lots to learn. As such, maybe this book wasn't aimed for my experience level: despite the adorable art (which I loved), overall I found it kind of childish and simplistic, with few usable tips for the intermediate-level plant enthusiast.

A lot of the tips and fun facts were so basic that I'm not sure whether the author is really an expert or just an enthusiastic afficionado who wrote a book. Additionally, they were split up very strangely: some plants were in the "watering" section, others in the "repotting" section, other still in the chapter about light... It makes it hard to navigate, and is far from optimal. All of the tips seemed to be for only one type of plant, which was a strange way to split up a chapter about care. If I know how to water a ZZ plant and how to repot a Monstera, but not how to water a Monstera and repot a ZZ plant, I'm not doing great...

While the illustrations were cute, they were few and far between. I would have appreciated an illustration of each described plant; while I do know many by name, it isn't all of them, and a visual reminder would have helped, especially since this book is so beginner oriented.

The tone of the book kind of feels like a 200 page Buzzfeed article. The author is constantly cracking jokes or making puns between factual tidbits, and the humor is sometimes juvenile and not really my cup of tea. Interspersed within the author's opinions are quotes from other houseplant people and references to NASA's research on houseplants. Considering Buzzfeed's popularity, I'm sure this writing style appeals to some people, it's just not to me.

In conclusion, while there wasn't anything factually wrong about this book (as far as I know), it certainly wasn't in depth. Maybe good for a teenage, beginner plant lover who has never even googled "how to care for a houseplant", but not for someone who already owns a few plants and is looking for some extra pointers to add to their knowledge base.

More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog http://surrealtalvi.wordpress.com/</p></i>This is a friendly book ideally suited to those who are just starting to learn how to keep houseplants. As a guide, I'd say it is good for those with no plants - then you can just pick and choose and set up your house nicely with green growies.

The problem with the book is that it is sparsely illustrated - and in black and white simple drawings. No photographs or color (despite the colorful cover) means it can be more than difficult to figure out what you are working with if you already have plants. As an example, I was given a lovely plant with small peach colored flowers - I have no idea what it is and the book isn't going to help me identify it in order to care for it properly.

There is the usual filler: why house plants are great, getting started, houseplants 101. The meat of the book is a breakdown of the best plants to put in each room (bathrooms are humid, bedrooms tend to be dark, kitchens great for herbs, living rooms need decorative plants, etc.). There are some great observations in here - such as orchids being the new throw pillow. As well, there is a nice breakdown of the ironclad plants that can't die versus the ones that need very special care.

You'll find the usual extras - how to repot, watering, etc. But you'll find the best information in the sections for each plant in each room.

In all, without pictures, I found the book very hard to use for existing plants and then also difficult when choosing which plant for which room (I guess I could spend some time at the garden center, look at each plant name, look it up in the book, and then decide if it would look better in the room than another choice). But yes, this is a very frustrating (but friendly!) wall of text.

In all, in the modern age, it is very hard to make a book like this appealing without photographs and especially without color. We don't live in black and white and the publishing world has developed well enough in the modern age to giving us full color everywhere (especially in the digital era). I would have liked the illustrations to be in color, in the very least, and much larger.
Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

Love the room by room break down of which plants will work and how to care for them. This book is super informative, interesting and witty. I even learned my philodendron I’ve had for 4 years is actually a pothos! Who knew! I can’t wait to go to the nursery and pick up more plants for around the house.

This short and sweet little book is beautiful and informative! Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom is exactly what every plant parent needs to make sure they keep all their babies happy as can be. I appreciated how there was specific information on certain popular plants (pothos, aloe, cacti, succulents, etc) as well as super cute accompanying photos. I found the section on lighting to be particularly informative, and realize I need to change a few plants up. This is a must have coffee table book for everyone who new to indoor plants, or wanting to just have a quick reference book.


Thank you so much to Tiller Press, and Netgalley for the ARC in return for a honest review.

I love how different houseplants are laid out in this book and the different care they take. I really hope the physical book is in color, because the black and white color scheme did not do these pictures justice. This is a really great beginner book for starting out your houseplant career, and I will definitely be purchasing my own copy!