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A Garden Of Marvels: How We Discovered That Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, And Other Secrets Of Plants (2014)

by Ruth Kassinger(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062048996 (ISBN13: 9780062048998)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: 3.5 stars. Too much meandering musings about how the author wanted to be a poet but then worked in DC, but then went to a pumpkin boat competition, or something, and then decided to be a writer but was clumsy at experiments but good at nodding sagely to the teacher in school, so she doesn't know the difference between mitosis and meiosis, I'm not sure; I skipped large portions. BUT, the parts that I did read were fascinating! Plants are great!
review 2: i like gardening as much as the next guy and it seemed like a good idea to find out more about what was happening beneath the soil and in between the leaves, but i found myself over my head ... the book is well written and at it's best, when the author talks about her everyday garden experiences, plant murder... moreing, etc. it's pretty fun, but those passages are trapped by overwhelming science principles, scientist bios, the history of the microscope and botanical stuff that asked more from me than i could give less

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