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Aug.11.2009 Killing My Garden with Kindness A week or so ago I said on Twitter that in my garden it looks like the flowers all got drunk, trashed the place, and now they have a hangover. I was not exaggerating--the garden was so overgrown that I could hardly get down any of the paths, and the flowers had all grown so tall and crazy, then...	Aug.10.2009 The Most Wicked Plant of All Red Room's first book for its staff book club was Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart and I absolutely loved it. It was a pleasure to read this book. There was so much fun information in the book and the presentation of it was...
Aug.10.2009 Avant-Gardening I'm a city person by choice. But I have a healthy respect for nature--I come from a family of avid campers, and I still enjoy the great outdoors. So I know better than to eat unfamiliar trail-side berries while on a hike, or to offer dinner guests the twisted root of a mysterious plant blooming on...	Aug.10.2009 Beauty in Poison, Poison in Beauty I recently read Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities as part of our Red Room staff book club, and absolutely loved it. I might be slightly biased, because I love plants anyway, but this book is seriously fascinating. There were so many things to...
Aug.07.2009 As The Plants Turn I just finished Wicked Plants, the first Book Club pick for Red Room Staffers. Needless to say I love the book, but I'm always impressed with people who are experts at something. Be it plants, roses, Star Trek, books, long haired cats, movies, whatever. It makes me open my mouth a bit and say in...	Aug.06.2009 Danger All Around I was fascinated by Amy Stewart's new book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, which the Red Room staff picked as its first book club read. It's an entertaining compendium of plants that range from mildly irritating to truly awful that decimate...