But young Millie Fleur—who’s vaguely reminiscent of Wednesday Addams in Mandin’s measured, sepia-toned digital illustrations—changes all that when she and her mother move into a lone, decrepit gothic house on the edge of town. Pet frog in tow, Millie plants a garden that is gloriously ...
One of the new things that people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts–just mere thoughts–are as powerful as electric batteries, as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. — Frances Hodgson Burnett in "The Secret Garden" ...
a few days before the official publication date. Attendees got to listen to the author talk about the book and what inspired her, get their books signed, and then undertake a private, out of hours tour of the Poison Garden.
It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; ...
Lacy early foliage of Queen Anne’s Lace, the wild Daucus carota, from which our common carrots were domesticated. The deadly Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum, has similar foliage and can be mistaken for this plant. Sweetgrass, Hierochloe odorata, the main character of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ...
What makes “The Purple Tomato” novel is that it is the only tomato that has the anthocyanin pigment in both the skin and throughout the tomato. Seeing pictures of the tomato, the vibrant purple color goes through the entire tomato and is striking. (It also doesn’t hurt that purple is...
And finally! I’m pretty sure this is the youngest Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicals) plant I’ve met, popping up in Terrace A under a Viburnum (below, top left). Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriac) buds (below, top right) are one of my favorite wild forages – in our Foraging Walk...
Peonies are rarely troubled by pests or diseases, but here’s an easy, poison-free way to make sure yours stay that way. We do it every fall. 1. Don’t wait. Cut them down early enough that the leaves are still green. If you wait until they’re dry and brittle, they’ll be muc...
Like a drop of poison, I’ve been infected with this record from the off. Bass tone, inhuman hooks, and utterly disgusting vocals make this one of my very favorite releases of the year. It’s death metal like this that always drags me back to the table. Kicking, screaming, and full ...
The early Garden flora was pub- lished during this period of flux in plant nomenclature and employed novel nomenclatural concepts such as tautonyms (e.g., Benzon benzo- in, Malus malus, Opuntia opuntia, Sassafras sassafras) that were dropped from the adopted code. Britton and colleagues were ...