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What if plants in our flats, sills, balconies and gardens could speak? Probably they would be begging, complaining, even insulting us! Fortunately, someone can understand their needs. It’s Pino, a retired gardener who spends his days watching plants and gardens around him, on terraces and balconies hosting parasitic infestations and thirsty, withered or drown plants... unconscious crimes committed by people fond of plants but having deadly fingers!
Pino writes them some polite and firm letters to give voice to the poor ill-treated plants, as if they were recommending that the humans should follow precise rules and take due care of them. Great life in a little pot offers practical advice and useful information – it’s a nice illustrated and well documented reading for those who love plants but can’t help doing them great harm within a week after buying them.
Learn how to cherish your little creatures!

Prologue
Innocent tortures (The right exposure - Geranium)
Fatal mistakes (Food: too much or nothing - Lemon)
Deadly beauty (Seasonal plants - Poinsettia and Croton)
The art of watering (Water: too much or nothing - Phalaenopsis)
Home sweet home (The right plant in the right place - Climatic mistakes)
To cut or not to cut? (The right way to prune trees)
Monstrously fat (Ice plants - Echeveria)
Artificially coloured flowers (Black tulips, blue roses...)
Serial plant killers (two-four-six or more-legs plants’ enemies)
Never call “bonsai” a little tree (The art of miniaturizing plants)
Christmas massacre (What happens to the Christmas trees the day after)
Epilogue

With a background in Biology, Eugenio Melotti attended the School in Science Communication at SISSA in Trieste. He is a free lance science writer for newspapers, blogs and schoolbooks. “Naturally naturalist”, as he defines himself, he lives in a very small flat exposed to the south of course, for the sake of his plants. As often as he can he escapes from the city to travel and take wonderful shoots of the nature around him.