--- product_id: 2934454 title: "The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home" price: "156.86 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2934454-the-unexpected-houseplant-220-extraordinary-choices-for-every-spot-in store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # creative indoor gardening tips 220 unique houseplant ideas stunning inspirational photography The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home **Price:** 156.86 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌿 Elevate your space with 220 unexpected houseplants — because ordinary is overrated! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home - **How much does it cost?** 156.86 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2934454-the-unexpected-houseplant-220-extraordinary-choices-for-every-spot-in) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unleash Botanical Creativity:** Discover 220 extraordinary houseplants beyond the usual suspects to transform every corner of your home. - • **Organic & Sustainable Approach:** Embrace eco-friendly plant care with organic methods that nurture your green companions naturally. - • **Expert Guidance for Every Space:** Master the art of positioning, watering, feeding, and pruning with Tovah Martin’s revolutionary care tips. - • **Visual Inspiration That Sparks Joy:** Immerse yourself in beautifully staged photos that ignite your passion for indoor gardening. - • **Curated for the Discerning Plant Lover:** Go beyond basics with rare, quirky, and exotic plants that elevate your home’s vibe and your social cred. ## Overview The Unexpected Houseplant by Tovah Martin is a comprehensive guide featuring 220 unique indoor plant choices, blending expert care advice with stunning photography. It challenges conventional houseplant norms by introducing rare and creative options, perfect for millennials seeking to personalize their living spaces with sustainable, eye-catching greenery. ## Description “An imaginative guide to bringing the delights of the garden indoors.” — Publishers Weekly The Unexpected Houseplant , by renowned plant authority Tovah Martin, offers a revolutionary approach to houseplants. Instead of the typical varieties, Martin suggests hundreds of creative choices—brilliant spring bulbs, lush perennials brought in from the garden, quirky succulents, and flowering vines and small trees. Along with loads of visual inspiration, you will learn how to make unusual selections, where to best position plants in the home, and valuable tips on watering, feeding, and pruning. Review: Fun Ruminations On Unexpected Genera - A good book, if I don't feel like the target audience. I'm not an outdoor gardener looking to liven chilly months with overwintered outdoor plants. As a cramped apartment dweller, none of my plants can get a summer break outdoors, and Tovah's admonishment that no one needs grow lights just isn't the case with only northern windows. Nevertheless, some of her suggestions will do well with a northwestern window and some aggressive pruning to combat etoilation, from prior experience. Moreso than a guide to particular plants, however, this book is a guide to how to get houseplants to work for you. From my own experience, you really do need to -love- your plants to make them live. My finicky maidenhairs are resplendent with fronds, and the temperamental tropicals are taking over, but the humdrum, basic begonia has only two leaves, and the "can you take care of this for me until I can take it back -- (five years later it's still here)" Aloe is going brown. Tovah also explains her particular situation, and repeats it often - cold, dim winters, and summers outdoors. And this is important - as she highlights - because you really need to know your home's environment to know what plants to keep (and where). My own thoughts have never jived with the "disposable houseplant" ideology, as best evidenced by some hyacinth I forced in February that is still in my kitchen (why cut down the leaves if it's still growing?). But she makes a good case for growing some plants I've always wanted indoors, even though I have no outdoors they can head to after that. There's a decent focus on flowers, which I can't do because of allergic-to-everything housemates, in case that is also your situation, be forewarned. Of course, flowers are the big attention-grabbers in any garden, so it makes sense. Of the "plants that are sold as houseplants" expect to see few of the "easy care" options, but of course, that's kind of the point-- dracaenas are never unexpected. Many are the notoriously difficult: gardenias, jasmines, calatheas and croton get mentions, but the easy-for-any-conditions-plants are mostly pepperomias, bromiliads and sanseviera. Admittedly, quite a few of the plants are still easy, but they are usually sold for outdoor purposes, or mail-order-only exotics. There's a bit about basic care near the end, and it's decent. She is the sort who keeps everything organic - pesticides, dirt, etc. So don't expect tables about which chemical for what pest or whathaveyou. As for my critiques: well, as mentioned earlier, this book seems to -expect- a house to work with. Since she keeps few plants indoors for the summer, many of her choices would be exceedingly impermanent in dim indoor lighting. She wants you to have an eastern- or western- exposure (or maybe south). Since she doesn't run much heat, she seems to underestimate how much some plants need humidity that they just won't get in the average home. All the photos, though beautiful, look staged. I want to see where the plant grows day-in and day-out, so that I can judge the light it's getting versus what I can give it. Other than those modest complaints, the book is fun funny, and maybe it can light a passion in your heart to try houseplants again! Review: Great Houseplant "Porn" - This is an ideal book for people looking for something to inspire them to think outside of the box when it comes to houseplants. A small fuschia in a decorative pot on the windowsill, who would've thought? A row of cypress plants for an evergreen border look? However, I have years of carnivorous plant experience so I find it hard to believe her trumpet plants look that good in only partial sun. A Venus flytrap would, but not the others. Trumpet plants love full sun and are difficult to look their best in the home in all but the sunniest windows. Other than that, it is full of ideas with care instructions for houseplants you may not have thought of using in the home, plus some standards. But the standards often have a twist to them--different varieties, etc. She has lists of nurseries for the plants in the back of the book if you have trouble finding the variety that you will inevitably fall in love with in the photos. She is a chatty writer so someone looking for a straight how-to may be frustrated as she give tips throughout the book in addition to her how-to part in the back. My favorite tip is on watering--almost fill the pot to the brim once and then stop!! She also has a section on plants she can never get to work for her. So forget the hibiscus. Or take it on as a personal challenge from her. :) The photography is really beautiful. Really beautiful. And at least half the reason I broke down and bought the book after taking it out of the library for extended periods of time for two winters in a row. Very inspirational and a definite find for those of us who feel they have been there and done that when it comes to houseplant ideas. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,258,178 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #333 in Ornamental Plant Gardening (Books) #501 in House Plant Gardening #2,219 in Home Decorating (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 Reviews | ## Images ![The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81I9yd9xfuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun Ruminations On Unexpected Genera *by P***W on April 14, 2017* A good book, if I don't feel like the target audience. I'm not an outdoor gardener looking to liven chilly months with overwintered outdoor plants. As a cramped apartment dweller, none of my plants can get a summer break outdoors, and Tovah's admonishment that no one needs grow lights just isn't the case with only northern windows. Nevertheless, some of her suggestions will do well with a northwestern window and some aggressive pruning to combat etoilation, from prior experience. Moreso than a guide to particular plants, however, this book is a guide to how to get houseplants to work for you. From my own experience, you really do need to -love- your plants to make them live. My finicky maidenhairs are resplendent with fronds, and the temperamental tropicals are taking over, but the humdrum, basic begonia has only two leaves, and the "can you take care of this for me until I can take it back -- (five years later it's still here)" Aloe is going brown. Tovah also explains her particular situation, and repeats it often - cold, dim winters, and summers outdoors. And this is important - as she highlights - because you really need to know your home's environment to know what plants to keep (and where). My own thoughts have never jived with the "disposable houseplant" ideology, as best evidenced by some hyacinth I forced in February that is still in my kitchen (why cut down the leaves if it's still growing?). But she makes a good case for growing some plants I've always wanted indoors, even though I have no outdoors they can head to after that. There's a decent focus on flowers, which I can't do because of allergic-to-everything housemates, in case that is also your situation, be forewarned. Of course, flowers are the big attention-grabbers in any garden, so it makes sense. Of the "plants that are sold as houseplants" expect to see few of the "easy care" options, but of course, that's kind of the point-- dracaenas are never unexpected. Many are the notoriously difficult: gardenias, jasmines, calatheas and croton get mentions, but the easy-for-any-conditions-plants are mostly pepperomias, bromiliads and sanseviera. Admittedly, quite a few of the plants are still easy, but they are usually sold for outdoor purposes, or mail-order-only exotics. There's a bit about basic care near the end, and it's decent. She is the sort who keeps everything organic - pesticides, dirt, etc. So don't expect tables about which chemical for what pest or whathaveyou. As for my critiques: well, as mentioned earlier, this book seems to -expect- a house to work with. Since she keeps few plants indoors for the summer, many of her choices would be exceedingly impermanent in dim indoor lighting. She wants you to have an eastern- or western- exposure (or maybe south). Since she doesn't run much heat, she seems to underestimate how much some plants need humidity that they just won't get in the average home. All the photos, though beautiful, look staged. I want to see where the plant grows day-in and day-out, so that I can judge the light it's getting versus what I can give it. Other than those modest complaints, the book is fun funny, and maybe it can light a passion in your heart to try houseplants again! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Houseplant "Porn" *by W***K on December 13, 2016* This is an ideal book for people looking for something to inspire them to think outside of the box when it comes to houseplants. A small fuschia in a decorative pot on the windowsill, who would've thought? A row of cypress plants for an evergreen border look? However, I have years of carnivorous plant experience so I find it hard to believe her trumpet plants look that good in only partial sun. A Venus flytrap would, but not the others. Trumpet plants love full sun and are difficult to look their best in the home in all but the sunniest windows. Other than that, it is full of ideas with care instructions for houseplants you may not have thought of using in the home, plus some standards. But the standards often have a twist to them--different varieties, etc. She has lists of nurseries for the plants in the back of the book if you have trouble finding the variety that you will inevitably fall in love with in the photos. She is a chatty writer so someone looking for a straight how-to may be frustrated as she give tips throughout the book in addition to her how-to part in the back. My favorite tip is on watering--almost fill the pot to the brim once and then stop!! She also has a section on plants she can never get to work for her. So forget the hibiscus. Or take it on as a personal challenge from her. :) The photography is really beautiful. Really beautiful. And at least half the reason I broke down and bought the book after taking it out of the library for extended periods of time for two winters in a row. Very inspirational and a definite find for those of us who feel they have been there and done that when it comes to houseplant ideas. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unexpected or Obscure? *by R***E on April 19, 2014* Nice enough book, wish that there were more pictures and less wordiness. I understand that the authors objective was to share her experience with certain plants in her home. I read through the whole book, or as much as I could, and wished for less stories, less about moving outdoor plants in for the New England winter. Some of the plants are not generally available locally, so it is frustrating to order from specialty greenhouses. Some of these plants I wouldn't bother with anyway. Would rather have had more variety of plants and general growing conditions. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2934454-the-unexpected-houseplant-220-extraordinary-choices-for-every-spot-in](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2934454-the-unexpected-houseplant-220-extraordinary-choices-for-every-spot-in) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-09-02*