Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere: (like lemons, limes, citrons, grapefruit, kumquats, sunquats, tahitian oranges, barbados ... black pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, and more...)

I really enjoyed reading about several new (to me) tropical fruiting plants that can be grown in the home. I was afraid that many of these unusual plants would only available from Logees, (the author is affiliated with Logees Greenhouse) - but after reading it, I just had to go online and look for some of them. Sure enough, the most frequent resource that searches located was Logees. The great news is that I ordered a couple of plants from Logees and they were excellent, good-sized and well-grown plants.I was particularly interested in the Miracle Berry - a small fruit that changes the mouth chemistry for a few hours so that even a lemon tastes sweet. I found the plant at several places, but NONE of the others offered the large size that I found here. After a couple of months my plant still looks big and healthy, so hopefully it'll make it to the fruiting stage!

I agree with many of the other reviewers for this book. The reviewer who listed all the sections of the book has it spot on. This is very nice for inspiration and helping you decide what types of plants you would like the grow - so basically it's great for kick-starting your interest. Application, however, will definitely take supplemental knowledge from other sources. If I were to decide to grow coffee in my house, for instance, I would say this book piqued my interest in growing it and gave a nice summary of how it could be done. But I would definitely need to do specific research on growing coffee, preferably indoors, which I can imagine could be hard to find. How do I help maintain a warm, humid climate for instance. More detail per plant would have brought this book up from four stars to five, in my opinion.All in all, I am glad I bought this book. It is very enjoyable and interesting to read and the pictures are nice. There is definitely some very useful information - I especially like some of the little additions like how to process what you grow to have a recognizable end product (i.e. cinnamon and coffee). If you hope to use this as your one and only source, though, you will be disappointed.

As a mom of three active, nature-oriented young boys, I can definitely recommend this book. I had checked it out from the library but found it so useful I decided to buy it. This is a great book on growing fruit indoors. As others have noted, it may not be exhaustive information on each plant. But, if you're looking for a review of the edible plants that you could grow indoors, this is a nice place to start. You definitely get enough information to asses the pros and cons of each plant and to know if the plant is a good fit for your indoor environment. From there, you can choose your plants and do online searches to get more detailed plant care information.

Great detail on how to care for, and use plants that produce many of the things in our fridge. Very little information on how to actually grow them from garbage scraps. You'll have to get another book for that. The authors work at Logees, a commercial greenhouse, so I assume they want you to buy from them. The book would have been five plus stars if there was detailed info about growing these items from things purchased at the grocery store.Nicely laid out, and decent graphics.

Very helpful book written by the folks at Logee's Gardens, so it covers their tropical plants for sale as well as any other tropicals you find. Good illustrations and explanations, but could be even more descriptive of requirements. I'm growing lemongrass, papaya, coffee, kefir lime, decorative orange, and hardy kiwis. Helped me select proper pots - clay - and learn soil requirements, watering, temperature needs, soil requirements.

This book is great. It is well-designed, has great photos of the plants, and easy to understand cultivation info. It has advice on how to raise the plants indoors or outdoors and tells what temperatures indoors or what zone the plants can tolerate outdoors. Being a tropical book, expect most plants need zone 8-10. The book gives details on which plants produce most fruit, which ones need hand-pollination, what sun conditions they can tolerate, etc. If you're a rare plants junkie, get it!

I don't have a green thumb. At all. I need all the help I can get to grow stuff.This book is somewhat helpful in letting me grow food-bearing tropical plants. At this point I have a roughly 50% survival rate- which for me is pretty good. *shame*The book has helped some, but not as much as I'd hoped it would; still, it's raised my survival rate to 50% from maybe 25%, so that's a huge improvement.It's definitely inspirational- I want to get more tropical plants-= and try to help them survive!

This is my g to book on tropical fruit! It provides enough information to select which trees i will add to my collection with great tips on care and maintenance.

Sure you can grow these tropical plants in any home but prefererably if you live in Florida. I did however love the book and this year grew huge limes and lemons in my bright lounge with large panel windows before the red spider mites took hold. It is possible but the book is written for USA residents.

I gave this to my son-in-law for Christmas and now his conservatory is a jungle.

Buon libro con foto e disegni, spiega a grandi linee come poter coltivare frutti esotici in vaso all'interno di un appartamento. Ci sono schede descrittive delle varie specie, tips sulla coltivazione, potatura, fertilizzazione e cura delle piante stesse.

Pas mal, très complet, j'aurais apprécié un mode d'emploi pour faire pousser la plante à partir de la graine... oui

My 1st impression of this book points straight at the lack of planting and propagation of the plants that are listed within the book. This is a recipe book and not a growers guide as the title of the book suggests. The fact that this book is supposed to be a growing guide but does not tell the reader how to propagate his selected plant is a total waste. The book looks pretty back is seriously lacking, i would never recommend this book to any1 not even a child. Whoever put this book together has not got a clue about what a reader is looking for when he is looking for a growing guide to plants. Clearly the authors were happy to publish this glossy attractive looking book with no substance in it. They were not thinking of the reader but they were thinking of themselves and the way they outlook growing tropical plants and not the potential reader who has no knowledge on the subject. Very very very disappointing