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Healthy House Plants: A Complete Guide to Gardening Indoors by Futurelearn
Learn how to care for house plants, with home gardening tips from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.
Course Highlights
- Identify different types of house plants from their appearance
- Consider the origins of plants when making an informed selection of what to grow in a particular rooms indoors
- Assess the indoor environment of particular rooms according to aspect, light and moisture levels and temperature to use appropriate methods of houseplant care
- Understand how growing conditions change and adapt your care regimes through the seasons
- Apply suitable watering techniques and assess the moisture requirements of plants
- Regularly monitor your plants to assess plant health and growth, diagnosing symptoms that may indicate poor techniques, or the presence of pests and disease
- Apply your newly acquired knowledge and skills to grow more unusual plants or transfer your techniques to outdoor growing
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Why grow plants indoors?
Ornamental house plants
Growing plants for food
Creativity with house plants
4 Topics
Origins of common house plants and their natural habitats
The pros and cons of the indoor environment
Different rooms of the house / Growing environments
Evaluating the growing conditions within a room
4 Topics
Choosing suitable containers for house plants
Compost for house plants
Watering methods and suitability for different plants
Maintenance and ongoing plant care
4 Topics
Filling your home with more plants
Methods of raising new plants
What to do when things go wrong
What have you learned?
Healthy House Plants: A Complete Guide to Gardening Indoors
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