Introduction: Validating the Houseplant 1. The Basics: What Houseplants Need to Grow 2. Living and Working with Houseplants 3. Which Plant and From Where? 4. Houseplants Arranged by Families 5. Discipline Is Freedom - the Trained Houseplant 6. The Edible Houseplant 7. Miniature Houseplants 8. Houseplants Indoors/Outdoors 9. Trouble in Paradise: Bugs, Blights, and Bloomless Dilemmas