{"id":3015,"date":"2012-06-26T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2021-05-30T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T02:04:16","slug":"botany-for-gardeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3015","title":{"rendered":"Botany for Gardeners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Botany for Gardeners: Third Edition<\/a><\/em> (2010) Brian Capon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Botany<\/a>It’s been a long time since my botany classes in college.<\/p>\n

A long time.<\/p>\n

I’ve recently found myself trying to remember basic botany \/ plant physiology \/ plant geography etc recently, but as all my college text books are long gone, I decided I needed a refresh. <\/p>\n

Mostly, I wanted a refresher on the basics to help with plant identification (my plant identification class was my very last semester in college. I’d forgotten most of it by the time I walked out the door after my final. But the thing is, I like knowing what the names of plants are. I like knowing why plants do what they do (my plant physiology classes stuck in my mind a little better). And I wish I could remember any of my plant geography. (That class was after lunch, and the professor spoke in a monotone and showed slides. And I don’t mean PPT, I mean, lights of, 35 mm slides.)<\/p>\n

So when I came across “Botany for Gardeners” I was delighted. I was also delighted that for the most part, things came back to me as I read them.<\/p>\n

Oh, did I mention I got the Kindle version of this book? I did. And I have to say that highlighting a Kindle is way nicer than using an ink highlighter. Neater too, since the Kindle highlights never go outside the lines. I’m not quite suer how any annotations I made, but it was at least a hundred. Most were things I wanted to remember for later, but there were also interesting things, such as<\/p>\n

(There was) a report of successful germination of arctic lupine seeds taken from frozen tundra soils and found to be at least 10,000 years old<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and <\/p>\n

A bird can fly a considerable distance in the time it takes or a seed to pass through its intestines and, at journey’s end, the seed is deposited with some fertilizer that may prove useful in getting the new plant started.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and <\/p>\n

The Victoria water lily… has round, flat leaf blades measuring up to 80 inches (203 cm) in diameter… A full sized leaf can support a load of up to 165 pounds (75 kg).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, educational and fascinating. And for $10, a good deal.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Timber Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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