Books for Green Thumbs-Part 1:Wicked Plants

Amy Stewart, author of the New York Time's Best Seller Flower Confidential, has written another biological beauty of a book. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities is an alphabetical exploration of exotic and local "wicked plants." Whether painful, deadly, destructive, or intoxicating, Stewart fearlessly dives into the curious history of dangerous plants. Read more:
Books for Green Thumbs-Part 1:Wicked Plants Source: examiner.com

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Flower Confidential

Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.