From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that fiddle-leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been humanity's companions for a millennia.
Taming the Potted Beast
explores the history of our air-purifying friends with an entertaining narrative of the peculiar, often dramatic story of the cultivation and domestication of the not-so-humble houseplant.
Including entertaining historical vignettes, DIY plant projects, and accessible tips and tricks for caring for your own historical houseplant collection, this book has any plant-curious reader covered. Readers will come away with practical projects, expert advice, and an understanding of the historical significance of houseplants as well as an appreciation of the cultures from which they emerged.
Both fascinating and fun,
Taming the Potted Beast
will take readers on exhilarating botanical adventure through the ages.
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978-1-5248-8166-5 (9781524881665)
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Molly Williams is the author of
Killer Plants: Growing and Caring for Flytraps, Pitcher Plants and Other Deadly Floraand she writes regularly for
Apartment Therapy's gardening and horticulture section. She grew up on a flower farm and is now a professor of writing in New England.
