You're Overwatering It! - by Jonny Balchandani (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A maximalist, humorous guide to growing and caring for houseplants--whatever your space, whatever your personality--from a plant fanatic who has transformed his home into an indoor jungle.

Water your plant every 7 days? Rubbish. Misting increases humidity? Barely. All plants go dormant in winter? Not if you control their environment. And don't even get me started on the "just put an ice cube on your orchid" people. You monsters.

New from social media sensation The Bearded Plantaholic (known as Jonny Balchandani IRL), You're Overwatering It! helps readers choose houseplants to fit their lifestyle, personality, and taste--leading them to plants that will work for them, rather than what's in style. This fun, funny, and gamified guide helps readers perfect their plant parenting skills, working through levels from Plant Noob to Budding Botanist, Plant Whisperer to Plant Curator, and then finally to Plant Mystic.

This is a wildly comprehensive yet eminently accessible guidebook from a peer expert, with a fresh voice that brings humor and irreverence to the indoor gardening space. Readers will learn how to grow plants better, what they're doing wrong, and why to ditch the tempting yet distracting myths that send many houseplant growers badly astray. Balchandani teaches plant stewards not just how to care for their beloved houseplants, but how to understand them--so caring for them stops being a chore and starts becoming second nature.

Review Quotes

"Call him a Jungle Doctor or Jungle Boss, Balchandani offers a first book true to its title and to the point. When it comes to houseplants, so many of us tend to smother the home greenery in either bursts of water or weeks of ignorance. Balchandani insists that plants are complex, intelligent organisms and devises a six-step curriculum for readers to become jungle boss too...Throughout, language and visuals remain colorfully funky, with the lessons couched in everyday lingo. No more black thumbs!"
--Booklist

About the Author

Jonny Balchandani is a self-confessed plant addict with a big beard, a big heart, and an even bigger passion for all things green. He is based in England, where he has appeared on the BBC and hosts and annual plant fest. He is widely know on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as @thebeardedplantaholic.