Healthy House Plants: A Complete Guide to Gardening Indoors
Learn how to care for house plants, with home gardening tips from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.
Who is the course for?
Anyone who wants to learn how to care for houseplants can benefit from this course. Perhaps you want to enliven an indoor space. You may have downsized to a home without a garden. Or maybe you just want more plants in your life.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
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