In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating personal crisis.
In A Garden of Marvels, she extends the story. Frustrated by plants that fail to thrive, she sets out to understand the basics of botany in order to become a better gardener. She retraces the progress of the first botanists who banished myths and misunderstandings and discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, roots choose their food, and hormones make morning glories climb fence posts. She also visits modern gardens, farms, and labs to discover the science behind extraordinary plants like one-ton pumpkins, a truly black petunia, a biofuel grass that grows twelve feet tall, and the world's only photosynthesizing animal. Transferring her insights to her own garden, she nurtures a "cocktail" tree that bears five kinds of fruit, cures a Buddha's Hand plant with beneficial fungi, and gets a tree to text her when it's thirsty.
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Intertwining personal anecdote, accessible science, and untold history, the ever-engaging author takes us on an eye-opening journey into her garden—and yours.
Life is a continuing mystery in every facet of detail. The author has punctuated this fact through a compelling account of her personal journey of research from being a black-thumb novice plant lover, to one of the world's foremost self-trained botanists. Her journey is both fascinating and, at the same time, highly informative. From the novice home-gardener to MBS botanists, this book has something of interest for everyone concerned.
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A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants Info
- Author: Ruth Kassinger ( Download PDF :
) - Hardcover: 416 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-0062048998
- Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.2 inches
- Publisher: William Morrow (February 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062048996
About the Author
Ruth Kassinger is the author of Paradise Under Glass, as well as a number of award-winning science and history books for young adults. She has written for the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Health magazine, Science Weekly, and other publications.
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