Tag: Book review
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The Light Eaters
Charlotte Lundeen, MGiT 2026, reviews Zoe Schlanger’s deep dive into the science of plant intelligence and the plant world’s message to us humans. If you are a plant nerd, that enjoys geeking out on nomenclature, plant facts and cool trivia on plant communication, this is your book. To quote Charlotte, “This book was saturated with…
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Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World
Generally speaking my reading choices come from the New Arrivals shelf at the Prince George Public Library and can be eclectic. When I see something that combines horticulture and history, I rarely pass it up. I recently picked up ‘Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World’ by William Alexander and because surely every gardener at some…
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How We Must Drop One Paradigm to Accept the Next, According to Zoë Schlanger
“Can plants really communicate?” It was April 6 and I, Nina Shoroplova, was leading a tree walk. The person asking me was one of the participants. He looked closely at me, a Vancouver Master Gardener, as I answered. “Of course,” I said, suggesting he might enjoy reading UBC forestry professor Suzanne Simard’s book, Finding the…
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Book Review: Linda P. J. Lipsen and Derek Tan’s Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium
Book Review: Linda P. J. Lipsen and Derek Tan’s Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium, published in February 2023 by Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia One of the hobbies I enjoyed as a girl was pressing wildflowers. My friend Rosemary lived in a house that backed on to some wild land near Cyncoed Village. We…