Collect How To Make A Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space In Your Home And Heart Originated By Summer Rayne Oakes Issued As Textbook

for a biophile like me, I love the idea that reexamining and exploring our understanding of plants can influence how we treat other people and create communities, how we engage in selfcare and connect with the world at large, how we approach economics and political issues, and how we understand different world views, cultures and languages.


Im not sure what its like in the physical text version, but in the audiobook I found the random additions of blurbs from other peoples experiences with plants to make the text feel quite disjointed and it took away from what was otherwise a wonderful read! I think the folks who gave this book a low rating may have totally missed the point.
So sad for them! Rezensionsexemplar Ich bin seit einem Monat ein Laubenpiepermuss ehrlich gestehen, dass ich mich bisher in meiner Stadtwohnung nicht unbedingt durch einen grünen Daumen ausgezeichnet habe.
Doch mir war immer klar, dass ich Pflanzen in meinem Leben brauche, Summer Rayne Oakes hat Umweltwissenschaften und Insektenkunde studiert und ist ein gefragtes Ökomodell, Bekannt geworden ist sie wohl durch die Fotos aus ihrem New Yorker Apartment, in dem sieZimmerpflanzen ein Zuhause gibt, Ihre YouTube Serie Plant One On Me“ ist der erste audiovisuelle online Kurs rund um das Thema Zimmerpflanzen und es lohnt sich, dort mal reinzuschauen.

Klappentext:
Für mehr Grün im Leben! Pflanzen sind mehr als reine Deko, denn sie machen uns glücklicher, gesünder und ausgeglichener.
Sie schenken uns niedrigen Blutdruck und frische Luft, reduzieren Stress und haben einen enormen psychologischen Nutzen: Wer sich um Pflanzen kümmert, ist zufriedener und achtsamer.
Summer Rayne Oakes hat überPflanzen im New Yorker Apartment und zeigt wie jeder seine ganz persönliche grüne Oase schaffen kann.
Denn Zimmerpflanzen machen das Leben besser! Und ganz nebenbei unser Zuhause schöner,
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Mir hat das Sachbuch gut gefallen, auch wenn ich mir einfache Tipps für mich als Anfängerin gewünscht hätte.
Positiv hervorzuheben ist, dass esverschiedene Kapitel gibt, die eben keine Anleitung sind, sondern vielmehr um die Psyche des Menschen gehen.
Das Verhältnis zwischen Natur und Mensch hat sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich verändert und genau auf diesen Konflikt geht die Autoren ein.
Jedes Kapitel beginnt mit einer süßen Illustration und endet jeweils mit mehreren Fragen, durch die man das Kapitel und sein Verständnis davon reflektieren kann.
Viele Zitate von anderen sind zu lesen, die ich als besonders bereichernd empfunden habe, Es hat einen wissenschaftlichen Touch, da die lateinischen Namen der Pflanzen verwendet werden und man insgesamt das Gefühl hat, dass die Autorin profunde Aussagen trifft.
Für Anfänger, würde ich das Buch nicht unbedingt empfehlen, aber Fortgeschrittene Pflanzenkenner können hier noch mal eine ganz neue Perspektive gewinnen.
I own a copy of this book but I highly recommend the Audible version! Great insight! Really enjoyed meeting her on her book tour if you have houseplants, her YouTube channel is an incredible resource! This book was far better than I could have ever anticipated it to be.
I have been in love with Summer Rayne Oakes pages since I saw that YouTube video of herplants in her Brooklyn apartment.
Now she has grown her indoor green space toplants, teaches the world about all kinds of plants, advocates green fashion, and encourages people to care for the environment.
She is truly an inspiration and so is this book, With such thought provoking questions like "is a tree still a tree once it's been chopped down for lumber" My mind was racing throughout this entire book.
I love my humble collection ofplants in our home and this book made me love each of my plants so much more.
She makes you think even deeper about the "weed" poking out from the cement in the sidewalk, This book took me back to the beginning of my plant journey when I bought my first plant that is still alive to this day.
My beautiful red maranta that has suffered some abuse because of our kitten yet is still loving life, This was more than a book about plants, It's a book about seeing the world differently, making greater choices with less environmental impacts, and caring about others the way we care for plants.
By learning how to love plants we can better love others as well as ourselves by

not thinking about what they can offer us, but what we can offer them that fits their needs.
Such a beautiful read. I can't get over how much I love this book, The book is okay. I like the concept and some of the "todos" are interesting, She is trying hard to push an agenda that having plants cures depression, Basically every single outside quote is about this and it gets boring, She uses the scientific names for plants so I think that keeps some readers like myself at an arm's length, I really wanted to like this but I cant, The book only talk about why people need to have plants and likeof the people already knows all of that so the information is nothing new.
And the title is not accurate with the book, Very disappointing. Dit is geen howtoboek, dus de titel is nogal misleidend, Het is een boek over plantenliefde en hoe planten je leven kunnen veranderen en bla bla bla, Fan van een deeltje van de boodschap, maar niet van de schrijfstijl noch van de langdradigheid en het zweefgehalte, I dont know how this will make a plant love me back, Really was hoping for a book on how to grow plants and not kill them, which is what I thought the title meant.
Ill stick to watching her YouTube videos, This book should have been titled How To Make You Love Plants, instead of the other way around, but still an excellent read.
Sehr schöne Illustration und viele "Ja, mir geht es genauso" Momente This is not the kind of gardening or houseplant coffee table book.
This book is more than that,

The book talks about plants in a more deeper perspective, It is about how we should see plants beyond their beauty at home, It is about knowing the nature of plants and their relationship to our ecosystem,

I'm thankful for the author, This is actually an opportunity for me to understand plants not just in the way I care for them but in embracing the wonderful creation of nature and taking care of them because they give a lot to us and it is just but rightful to give back to them through showing our care and appreciation.
By not destroying the mother nature, By being mindful of our actions because just like us, plants are living, They're alive and we are sharing one habitat and so, we should learn how to preserve them, We need them to survive, They provide us:
. Oxygen
. Water
. Food
. Shelter

Which are considered the basic needs of humans to survive,

Highly recommend for plant enthusiasts if you want to step up your skills in caring for your plants, Not by action per se but by broadening your knowledge about the importance of plants in our lives, Oh this book was terrible! So pretentious, Name dropping plant people names as though lay people should know who they are, tooting her own horn about basically everything, continuously using scientific plant names so anyone just learning has no idea what the heck shes talking about.
This book is not for someone who wants to learn more about plants, It also doesnt teach how to get a plant to love you, It was boring and long and eye rolling,
Reading this book felt as light and airy as a breezy summer day, Though it doesnt feel like a must read from my perspective, I generally enjoyed engaging with Summer Rayne Oakes and her words on nature, how we can more actively coexist with it, some history behind our relationship with it, and reminders of the wonders and beauty of its existence.
I also LOVED the foreword by Wade Davis and should do some googling to see if hes written anything else that will pique my interest.
His writing was thoughtful in a way that was different than the tone for the rest of the book which is not to say that Oakes is not thoughtful!, making it an interesting but still intriguing choice to start with.


If youre seeking a “how to” book as the name suggests, like many others stated, this is not the book for you.
I do wish the title was what comes after the colon alone because this book is really about cultivating green space in your home, heart, and mind more than it is about what to do to make a plant love you.
Nonetheless, it was an easy read,

I couldve done without the abundance of testimonies that followed her thoughts on each of the topics discussed, Im sure the intention was to demonstrate that Oakes isnt the only party that feels as she does, but it didnt add much for me as a reader and I found myself skimming them as I got closer to the end of the book.
Closing out my home gardening trifecta with the most woowoo of the bunch, It's less a book about caring for your new houseplant and more a way to readjust your thinking of our chlorophyllic compatriots.
There are the heartfelt testimonials of plant owners pulled from the depths of depression and overcoming personal challenges with the help of plants.
And each chapter ends with a mindful practice, perhaps consider how your attitude towards plants has changed as you've matured, And I expected what exactly from an author named Summer Rayne Oakes

Dammit Summer, I just want to know if I'm overwatering my pilea peperomioides! She does get points for being published under Simon Sinek's imprint and getting the one and only OG botanicalbro Wade Davis to provide the intro.
I enjoyed her investigation of the greening of Singapore, the long and ancient history of indoor gardening and identifying geosmin, the smell of earth.
Less so the references to her Masterclass I should take to get the answers I was looking for in the first place.
But hell, you gotta hustle out here when it comes to houseplants I guess, For the people who gave this bookStar and are whining about the lack of how to make my plant grow information.
I think theyre missing the whole point of this book, This book is more in line with how she wanted to share how getting into plants changed her outlook on life.
How its brought her closer to people by using plants in a place where you wouldnt even think they would thrive like Brooklyn.
It also expresses how plants are involved in most all aspects of our daily lives even if we dont grow them ourselves.
I think she wants you to look at a tree and see more than a brown log with green leaves, See it producing the oxygen youre breathing at that exact moment or filtering out the toxic particles in the air,
For people looking for a this is how you do it book , this is not it, She has videos and online courses for all that, This takes you to the heart of plants and how to bring them into your heart,
I think you will like it and enjoy it if you really love your plants, .