Indoor Plant Decor Book and Giveaway

I love house plants, in other people’s homes. Mine usually look neglected, because they are! I keep trying though, and it looks like this book has some great ideas and suggestions.

I have not had much luck with plants, but really want to create a healthier home by having more plants to purify the air. How much better if you can do that stylishly!

Live the blog and the book! My favorite houseplant I’d the Christmas Cactus because I have two blooming right now. Always a surprise to me! I was just Telly husband the I need to plant the antique terrarium that is setting in the dining room. The problem is, I don’t know where to start. I think thus gift card would be the start of a great thing! Thanks for the opportunity

Hope springs eternal in my home…perhaps this book will inspire my indoor plant adventures to go past African violets and a single bromeliad. The Crown of Thorns looks like a hydrangea…beautiful pics.

Thanks to Logee’s, a Murraya koenigii, aka curry leaf plant, or should I say a beautiful ten year old 4′ tree, was the first of my indoor edible plant collection. With their heavenly aroma, I toss the curry leaves into every kind of dish, not just curries. Every year I’ve watched Logee’s move beyond the traditional lemons and limes to include crazier and crazier things in their catalog: mangoes, mulberries and star fruit! It’s an indoor growing obsession!

Although my garden is filled with plants and flowers my house is sadly neglected. Time for that to change. This book should help me get started and a gift certificate would certainly be appreciated.

I am so thrilled to hear about this book. I am not a great indoor gardener so it is no surprise that that my most successful plants indoors are succulents. Right now I have an ancient and huge orchid cactus that has burst into loads of brilliant red bloom. My Christmas cactus is always a wonder! And last spring, inspired by Debra Lee Baldwin I planted a bowl of succulents which is doing magnificently. Last summer I made and planted a hypertufa trough with un-named succulents. It lives in an unheated room during the winter so I guess I can count it as a houseplant too. Can’t wait to see the book.

This book has made me realize that my house plants are a little lacking in the style department. Time to try some new ideas.

I have a love/hate relationship with indoor plants. Gotta have them, don’t like the care many of them take. Indoor dryness issues, dreaded infestations of mites, stained furniture from water leaks and splashes. But when they are thriving they are beautiful. I’ve learned to look at indoor plants as disposable. Enjoy them while they are doing well, and toss them when they don’t. Is that wrong? I’d love this new book, maybe they can help me with my plant abandonment issues.

I love the shells used as a planter. I would love to see this book. I really would like to see their gardens too! I am sure they have some real treasures there.

The book sounds great. I’m not as good with houseplants as I am with outdoor plants (we have an old drafty house) but I keep trying. I was very excited to have a night blooming cereus bloom recently. I’m particularly interested in succulents.

Love your blog and would love to get some inspiration and help with indoor plants.

Strange as it sounds, I am growing two orange trees and two tea trees (melaleuca). Other denizens are talisandia (air plants), succulents, spearmint, cacti, and some more traditonal plants. Most of them live in typical pots, though one talisandia lives in and old oil-lantern.

I would love to own this book for it’s inspired ideas for hostess gifts: with my huge collection of succulents outside and their new ideas within the pages of the book, I could create some memorable pieces to share.

What an interesting idea for a gardening book. I love the idea of bringing a vertical garden indoors. Earlier this week I killed an aloe plant that was in my office by over watering. I think that I will replace it with Mother-in-laws tongue, which I’ve had the best success with over the years.

Hi Debra Lee- I live next door to you in San Marcos and have attended your class at the botanical garden. I am a little bit new to the succulent world but I am trying hard. I loved the pictures you posted and I would love to start on one of the projects in the book. The gift certificate is a great way to get to know a new supplier and new plants! Thanks.

I don’t do a lot of indoor plants but lately I have bought five new ones. Your book looke like it has some amazing plants and planting ideas in it. I’d love to have it.

I have my succulent arrangements on a rotation schedule. One might decorate the entry table for a week or so, living in bright light and no water. Then it goes outside for a while to be refreshed, while something else outside comes in. That way I always have my indoor plant decor! Excited for the new book!

CONGRATS to Kylee and Jenny! I think the cover looks really nice. I’ve added the book to my wish list.

I have to admit that I’ve never heard of Logee’s before. Looks like they have some really cool plants.

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We are moving (in 3 weeks!) and so we had a stager in to suggest how to set up the house before it went on the market. Normally, I think they recommend to remove most houseplants to streamline the look, but our cacti and succulents are so structural that they served as good design elements and got to stay in place.

Because we’ve known we’re moving for several months, I haven’t purchased any plants for a while. I’m suffering from withdrawal! Maybe once I’m in my new home in June I’ll grab Peterson and Baumle’s book for ideas!

I love logees!!! I have a tuberous begonia that is so cool, it is my favorite plant from them. However my favorite house plant is one that was my grandma’s Rhipsalis ceruscula. It is what got me into succulents and into botany.

I love the plant selections in Logee’s! In my area it’s hard to find such a wonderful assortment of beautiful plants. Having lost all my indoor plants during a massive power outage during a snow storm a few years ago I have been slowly replacing my plants.

Unusual plants it is that you have … I must look and see!! There must be something I cannot live without!

Logee’s you could be my newest addiction.

Thanks for the tip on Logees. I’m new to the succulent gardening and get most of my plants at Lowes/Home Depot. I will be checking out Logees for some interesting additions. I already have 2 of your books …love them!

I am looking forward to reading “Indoor Plant Décor” soon. We moved into a new home last year and I’m looking for some unique indoor plants that are also cat friendly. The book will give me the ideas for decorating and the gift certificate will help me fund it. As a Placer County Master Gardener I never know when one of our clients will ask about indoor plants….though this isn’t necessarily our focus. Right now my focus is on planting my spring garden……

I just moved in to a large, lovely apartment with my boyfriend. It may be a sea of boxes now, but we are gradually building a place of warmth and comfort together. With my ample windowsill space and giant patio, I plan to introduce an array of beautiful plant life. I won’t feel home until then!

Hi, I had never heard of Logee’s before but very happy to have found out about you. Looking forward to adding to my succulent, cactus & plant collections from you in the future. LOVE what I have seen so far-beautiful all around.

What a great idea. I think I could use this book. Right now I just put plants wherever I can find a spot with enough light. I love Sanseveria and I bet they have some great ideas on how to use them.

Great blog! I love being inspired by others’ creativity. I need to do a better job with my houseplants. Maybe this will help me!

Hello Debra,

This is wonderful! I want to learn more about indoor plant decor. Unfortunately, I can’t qualify to win the giveaway since I already moved to Australia. Anyway, I would still like to buy this book online if it’s already available.

Oh, WOW! Logee’s, where have you been all my life 🙂 Seriously, we bought our Fixer-upper a couple of years ago and are starting the “plants” phase of reno (indoors and out). Even if I don’t win the giveaway I will probably become a customer as I’m already drooling over the selection in their catalog.

Oh, wow, I think I see a stapelia-like flower in the catalog! I love those things and would love to have some as my very own photographic subjects, since the botanic garden only has one variety! Would they be too stinky indoors, or in a small enclosed patio, though…?

Wishing Kylee Baumle the best of luck with her book. Haven’t heard of Logee’s.

My most prolific success is my pair of Christmas cacti. Every 2 weeks I get a new set of leaves, so they have more than quadrupled in size -twice- since last summer, when I got cuttings from a yard sale. Miracle Gro soil seems to be the bomb. It’s what the seller was adamant about. Looking forward to getting Logee’s catalog, and hoping for the certificate. Thank you for the opportunity, Debra!

I’ve always loved plants since I was a young child and have been especially interested in propagation. This love has carried over to the present time, and I am now a grandmother in my 60s.

My biggest love is succulents. I was introduced to them about 4 years ago after my son left his collection on my back patio, while he was moving. And there they sat all summer, whispering my name, calling out to me. I pinched a little here and there, and became addicted to them, as plant addicts do. lol.

Since I am now on social security, propagation is even more important since I have little money to purchase plants. I am also making small dish gardens and trying to sell them on the side to supplement my income, but this is a big feat because I don’t have a greenhouse. I also live in Ohio, and it gets rainy spells, so I have to watch that my plants won’t rot–I already made THAT mistake. 🙂 I now put them on “party” tables, in front of the inside garage door and leave the door up in the summer. It faces the southwest, so it’s a perfect location. If it starts raining, I simply shut the garage door. In the winter I put them “to bed” under lights in the basement.

My favorites are Echeverias. (I drool over the Echeveria gibbiflora var. carunculata, which unfortunately, will always be out of my price range.) I also love Lithops. This is the first year that I didn’t lose even one, after the winter. Yay!

I can’t wait to look up Logee’s website, and to read the book. I need all the decorating tips I can get!

Love looking at the amazing photo’s …gives me such inspiration..

I just finish my yard and used mainly succulents and water wise plants. I also used a subtereanean inline drip system at 18″ on center spacing. I am looking forward to see it fill in.

I’ve been a fan of Logee’s for years, especially their begonias. My favorite succulent this month is the echeveria – love the symmetry.

That book looks Amazing and I really need to go through that catalog for some more variety on my plants. I am so hooked on succulents, thanks to Debra Lee Baldwin!

My new favorite website to visit. Great ideas and beautiful plants!

I’m glad to see a book celebrating houseplants since my first “gardening” experience was with houseplants. I still keep and enjoy a few, including a 9′ ficus that has traveled almost 6,000 miles through five moves with me.

Indoor gardening has made this cold and rainy West Michigan spring bearable. I love being able to get my hands dirty even when the weather is not cooperating.

It would be double the fun to both have some interesting ideas for indoor plant decor with some new and interesting plants not available locally.

I’ve finally started fertilizing my houseplants regularly and man oh man, is that making a difference! I love looking over at my window sills now. Would love to check out this book and get a gift certificate to get something new to pamper.

I would love to know which plants I can grow in the house, especially succulents. Indoor Plant Decor sounds like the perfect answer – and I am definitely going to check out Logee’s catalogue to add to my growing succulent garden.

I have fallen in love with the Euphorbia Geroldii. It is a thornless version of the Crown of thorns. This plant keeps blooming almost year round. It makes a great hanging plant or you can keep it trimmed back. Bright reddish flowers. They are being sold by Desert Creations a small nursery that sells at cactus and succulent shows. It is really a hardy plant. I wish I could attach a picture.

My favorite houseplant is the string of pearls. Its easy to care for, has an attractive and unusual form, and its easy to propagate.

I don’t have a lot of experience on houseplants but this is really encouraging me to try it out again! Great giveaway!

I want to win this book because I want to learn more about indoor appropriate plants.

Would love to add some “exotic” plants to my desert landscape. What an inspiration you all are to me!

My wife and i have been adding more and more succulents to our gardenscape. Today we will be planting a new container. I would like to replant some of the pots in my office that need replanting and hope to replant a couple of them with succlents including a Crown of Thorns. I am eaager to see this book!

Having lived in an apartment for many years, I deeply appreciate the need for indoor gardening.Plants light up a space. They refresh and rejuvenate. They clean the air. There are so many ways to do it, but people need to understand how to care for their plants by supplying the right levels of light, moisture, and nutrients. I really hope this book addresses these issues. I’ve grown aquatic plants in aquariums under lights, botanical terrariums, African violets, Sinningia, and succulents under lights. The south window is reserved for light-loving plants like my carnivorous plants and lithops, the north window for ferns and moss terrariums. Each plant has a place in a home, so many possibilities! 🙂

I’ve been collecting succulents since I was 10 and especially covet rare, exotic, and weird-looking ones. I’m also a global traveler, and when I travel I always visit gardens.The tropical gardens throughout Southeast Asia are among my favorites. Right now I am totally homebound, due to a recent serious accident … but the next best thing to travelling would be to curl up with this gorgeous and informative book and pore over every photograph and word on every page. I would be transported to another land!

I’ve had the best luck growing my cactus. I started them years ago on a lark by buying a pack of seeds. It was really interesting watching them go from pea sized balls to 2 feet tall.

I have actually spent the last 3 years learning to garden outside, and would like to branch out so to speak, and start tending to houseplants! I need more greenery especially during those barren winter months. My kids would love it too.

Love the pictures from this book. Growing more all the time.

Indoor plants are like first love. Ephemeral. But once the heart is broken up to the possibility of real love, one should try, try again- until love roots and becomes real.

Thanks for the extension. I would love to explore Logees offerings!

(Hm. Need to get on their mailing list!)

I’ve been making succulent dish gardens for over a year — Logee’s has great advice on pests and plant ailments.

Good luck with the new book. I’m mad about the Passion vine on Logee’s cover. It would look good in my moonlight garden

Love to grow begonias especially canes inside!

I saw a episode of Shark Tank where two people were pitching a product that was a vertical garden. I live in a small apartment and was wondering if anyone has experience with such gardens.

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