Plants That Kill Book

Plants That Kill

  • Author : Elizabeth A. Dauncey
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 9,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2018-03-06
  • Genre: Art
  • Pages : 224
  • ISBN 10 : 9780691178769
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"This richly illustrated book provides an in-depth natural history of the most poisonous plants on earth, covering everything from the lethal effects of hemlock and deadly nightshade to the uses of such plants in medicine, ritual, and chemical warfare"--Dust jacket.

Plants That Can Kill Book

Plants That Can Kill

  • Author : Stacy Tornio
  • Publisher : Skyhorse
  • File Size : 11,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-09-19
  • Genre: Gardening
  • Pages : 184
  • ISBN 10 : 9781510726796
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Following the success of Plants You Can’t Kill, Tornio now takes a look at those plants that can actually kill you if you’re not careful. This book will offer up information to gardening enthusiasts of all levels about common plants that are toxic, poisonous, and even deadly. While the level of toxicity varies from each plant, all are considered deadly in one way or another to wild animals, family pets, and even humans. With its colorful, easy-to-read format, Plants That Can’t Kill will introduce readers to what these plants look like, smell like, feel like, and sometimes even taste like. Fun facts, interesting tidbits, and history will combine to teach gardeners where these types of plants can be found, how poisonous each one is, and whether these plants are still okay to have in their gardens or if they should be gotten rid of immediately. Plants featured include many common and attractive species you may receive in bouquets or even decorate your homes with, including daffodils, irises, tulips, jasmine, witch hazel, mistletoe, poinsettias, buttercups, marigolds, and even fruits and vegetables like cherries, rhubarb, and some tomatoes.

Plants You Can t Kill Book

Plants You Can t Kill

  • Author : Stacy Tornio
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • File Size : 16,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-02-21
  • Genre: Gardening
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 10 : 9781510709690
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"I kill everything I plant." Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Can’t Kill. Seriously—it doesn’t matter how many plants you’ve killed in gardens past. It’s time to put those experiences behind you and finally grow something in your empty and bare spots. This is the only gardening book you’ll ever need with more than 100 plant picks for every situation. You want veggies? We have ’em. You need to fill a big space? We have shrub ideas for you. You just want something pretty? We have plenty of that, as well. The plants in Plants You Can’t Kill have been vetted by an amazing and famous panel of horticulture experts (this is just a fancy way of saying they went to college for gardening), so feel confident you’re not wasting money on yet another gardening book. These plants will actually survive your well-meaning, yet sometimes neglectful ways. Ready for the most resilient, hardcore, badass list of plants known to gardeners? Find them and grow them with the help of Plants You Can’t Kill.

Poisonous Plants Book

Poisonous Plants

  • Author : Elizabeth A. Dauncey
  • Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
  • File Size : 17,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2010
  • Genre: Family & Relationships
  • Pages : 184
  • ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105215362224
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Crucial information for anyone caring for children, and for educators, medics, sellers of plants and flowers, gardeners and those responsible for plants in public places. Helpful descriptions and more than 230 photographs will assist you in identifying 130 of the most poisonous plants likely to be encountered.

How Not to Kill Your Houseplant Book
Score: 4.5
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant

  • Author : Veronica Peerless
  • Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
  • File Size : 5,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-03-10
  • Genre: Gardening
  • Pages : 146
  • ISBN 10 : 9780241308646
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow. If you wonder what the crispy bits at the leaf edges are, why the stalks are looking spindly, or why your plant looks brown even though you've watered it, How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will explain - and fix - your horticultural woes. Understand how much light, water, heat, and humidity your plant needs with quick tips on what your houseplant does and doesn't like. Learn to spot the danger signs and how to rescue an unhealthy plant, and follow easy advice to pick the top plants for your bathroom, cold rooms, desk, and windowsill to create your own indoor oasis.

How Not to Kill Your Houseplants Book

How Not to Kill Your Houseplants

  • Author : Trisha Bora
  • Publisher : Ebury Press
  • File Size : 18,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-08
  • Genre: Gardening
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 10 : 0670094706
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We've all killed houseplants. But a plant's death is a good starting point, because it can help us answer the important question: Why did it die? Equipped with the right knowledge, you can make plants thrive for many years. How Not to Kill Your Houseplants is the first-ever comprehensive guide on how to care for houseplants in the Indian context. In this book, you will learn how to choose the right plants for your space and lifestyle, the right light requirements, when and how to water and fertilize them, the best potting mixes, and how to propagate plants. With simple and effective advice, and seventy houseplant profiles, accompanied by stunning pictures, plant parenting has never been easier.

Wicked Plants Book
Score: 3.5
From 49 Ratings

Wicked Plants

  • Author : Amy Stewart
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • File Size : 8,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2009-05-21
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 10 : 9781565129399
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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. You’ll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother). Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

Wicked Plants Book

Wicked Plants

  • Author : Amy Stewart
  • Publisher : Timber
  • File Size : 10,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2010
  • Genre: Dangerous plants
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 1604691271
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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glinting red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a climbing plant that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Bestselling author Amy Stewart takes on two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate and otherwise offend.

Botanical Curses and Poisons Book
Score: 4
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Botanical Curses and Poisons

  • Author : Fez Inkwright
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 6,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021
  • Genre: Uncategoriezed
  • Pages : 224
  • ISBN 10 : 1912634228
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Poison has caused some of history's most dramatic deaths--yet a fine line separates healing from killing: the difference lies in the dosage! Folklorist Fez Inkwright returns to the archives to reveal fascinating stories behind a variety of lethal plants, witching herbs, and funghi. Going from A to Z, she covers everything from apple to oleander, beautifully illustrating each plant herself. This enthralling treasury is packed with insight and lore on the mysteries of everyday flora.

This Is Your Mind on Plants Book
Score: 3
From 5 Ratings

This Is Your Mind on Plants

  • Author : Michael Pollan
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • File Size : 12,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-07-06
  • Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 10 : 9780593296912
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The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a “drug”? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and sh

This Poison Heart Book
Score: 4.5
From 4 Ratings

This Poison Heart

  • Author : Kalynn Bayron
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • File Size : 16,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-06-29
  • Genre: Young Adult Fiction
  • Pages : 400
  • ISBN 10 : 9781547603916
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Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power. Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined--it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share Bri's unique family lineage. When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman who Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. There is more to Bri's sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it . . . until a nefarious group comes after her in search of a rare and dangerous immortality elixir. Up against a centuries-old curse and the deadliest plant on earth, Bri must harness her gift to protect herself and her family. From the bestselling author of Cinderella Is Dead comes another inspiring and deeply compelling story about a young woman with the power to conquer the dark forces descending around her.

How To Grow Fresh Air Book
Score: 4.5
From 3 Ratings

How To Grow Fresh Air

  • Author : B.C. Wolverton
  • Publisher : Orion
  • File Size : 7,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-04-20
  • Genre: Gardening
  • Pages : 176
  • ISBN 10 : 9781398701175
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An illustrated guide to the houseplants you need for clean and fresh air when you're stuck at home How clean is the air you breathe? Plants are the lungs of the earth: they produce the oxygen that makes life possible, add precious moisture and filter toxins. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office with the same efficiency as a rainforest in our biosphere. In this beautifully illustrated guide, noted scientist Dr Bill Wolverton shows you how to grow 50 plants that filter the most common pollutants, making it easy for you to purify the environments that impact you the most.

The Secret Life of Plants Book
Score: 3.5
From 4 Ratings

The Secret Life of Plants

  • Author : Peter Tompkins
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • File Size : 12,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2018-06-12
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 416
  • ISBN 10 : 9780062874429
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Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestseller. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants. Now available in a new edition, The Secret Life of Plants explores plants' response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants' surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their creative powers, and much more. Tompkins and Bird's classic book affirms the depth of humanity's relationship with nature and adds special urgency to the cause of protecting the environment that nourishes us.

The Big Bad Book of Botany Book

The Big Bad Book of Botany

  • Author : Michael Largo
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • File Size : 15,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2014-08-05
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 416
  • ISBN 10 : 9780062282767
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David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo’s entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world’s most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. The Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. Others have been used by assassins to kill kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead. Here, too, is vegetation with astonishing properties to cure and heal, many of which have long since been lost with the advent of modern medicine. Organized alphabetically, The Big, Bad Book of Botany combines the latest in biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdom’s oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually “walked.” Largo takes you through the history of vegetables and fruits and their astonishing agricultural evolution. Throughout, he reveals astonishing facts, from where the world’s first tree grew to whether plants are telepathic. Featuring more than 150 photographs and illustrations, The Big, Bad Book of Botany is a fascinating, fun A-to-Z encyclopedia for all ages that will transform the way we look at the natural world.

Garden Myths Book

Garden Myths

  • Author : Robert Pavlis
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 16,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-01-26
  • Genre: Uncategoriezed
  • Pages : 206
  • ISBN 10 : 1542465222
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Garden Myths examines over 120 horticultural urban legends. Turning wisdom on its head, Robert Pavlis dives deep into traditional garden advice and debunks the myths and misconceptions that abound. He asks critical questions and uses science-based information to understand plants and their environment. Armed with the truth, Robert then turns this knowledge into easy-to-follow advice. - Is fall the best time to clean the garden? - Do bloom boosters work?- Will citronella plants reduce mosquitoes in the garden?- Do pine needles acidify soil?- Should tomatoes be suckered?- Should trees be staked at planting time? - Can burlap keep your trees warm in winter?- Will a pebble tray increase humidity for houseplants? "Garden Myths is a must-read for anyone who wants to use environmentally sound practices. This fascinating and informative book will help you understand plants better, reduce unnecessary work, convince you to buy fewer products and help you enjoy gardening more."