How The Rose Got Its Thorns and Other Botanical Stories by Andrew Ormerod
How The Rose Got its Thorns reveals the inner workings of our favorite flowers and trees. Designed to help gardeners, both novice and experienced, better understand how plants grow, the book is accompanied by specially commissioned color illustrations, each chapter explaining the evolutionary processes behind plants such as protecting themselves from predators using chemicals, attracting pollinators using scent, shape and color and much more.
A Flower Garden For Pollinators by Rachel de Thame
With bees, butterflies and other pollinators threatened by climate change and habit loss, it's now more important than ever to support and nurture pollinators in your garden. Author and expert horticulturist Rachel de Thame shows you how to create a garden that provides an abundant resource of plants rich in nectar and pollen. (I had a chance to review this book. My daughter especially loved it, and how we have lots of new landscaping ideas for our house.)
Seventy-five herbs have been carefully chosen to tell the story of how they have each changed our world, looking back at their origins and what was once believed, while comparing this with the modern day uses and the scientific value of these plants enabling the reader to understand and appreciate their importance..png)
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