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Best Books Of 2009

2009's Crop Of Great Gardening Books

by Ketzel Levine

From an anti-lawn manifesto, to "sophisticated plant porn at its finest," Ketzel Levine shares this year's yield of great gardening books. She finds that geeky plant lust is officially outre, and memoirs of urban homesteads of produce and poultry are a budding new genre.

Illustration of a tree growing from a book.

Excerpts: Best Books 2009

Excerpt: 'Wicked Plants'

by Amy Stewart

"Consider yourself warned," writes Amy Stewart. "Within the plant kingdom lurk unfathomable evils." Bram Stoker meets Agatha Christie in this sophisticated little brew of botanical boogiemen. Fatal fungus, suicide trees and deadly nightshades are the characters in Stewart's cleverly designed overview of poisonous plants.

'Wicked Plants'

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