A Garden Of Marvels. 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. In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants a w.
ROBERT FORD CAMPANY A Garden of Marvels Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China A Garden of Marvels This page intentionally left blank A. How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex Leaves Eat Air and Other Secrets of Plants by Ruth Kassinger delivers more than just tawdry tidbits on the sex life of plants. A Garden of Marvels.
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.
Frustrated by plants that fail to thrive she sets out to understand the basics of botany in order to become a better gardener. A Garden of Marvels is the story of her wise and enchanting odyssey to discover the secret life of plants. The Dutch born artist began building models of famous structures as part of installations in Germany and Holland. A Garden of Marvels.
