the Feathertop sways, as the river beside it glides inexorably
Feathertop [Haiku]
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BOOK REVIEW: A Gardener’s Guide to Botany by Scott Zona
A Gardener’s Guide to Botany: The biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need by Scott ZonaMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Release Date: December 6, 2022
This beginner’s guide to botany is well conceived and executed. The photographs are beautiful and well-chosen to help the reader understand the complexities discussed in the text. The text gets definitionally dense in places, but also presents fascinating ideas in plain English. I learned a lot from the book, particularly where it was less steeped in technical terminology and details and offered intriguing ideas and examples.
While the book’s eight chapters aren’t formally divvied up, I would place them into three groups. Chapters one and two are about what plants are and how they are organized to do what they do. Chapters three through five are about what plants need to survive (water, light, and nutrients, respectively) and why. The last three chapters explore the main activities plants engage in (i.e. defense, reproduction, and seed dispersal.)
I found this book to be informative and readable, and if you’re looking for a basic guide to botany that skillfully employs photographs, I’d have a look at this one.
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Briefly Trumpeting [Haiku]
pink trumpet flowers
densely clustered above;
under foot next week
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DAILY PHOTO: Flowers w/ Church, Budapest [Felsővízivárosi Szent Anna templom]
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Tattered Dandelion [Haiku]
one dandelion stands alone at field's edge; where are its friends?
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Cattail [Haiku]
the cattail sways with a unique rhythm, but - now - is still
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Red & Green [Haiku]
some find Christmas mind in "It's a Wonderful Life" i, through holly berries
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Fleabane Daisy [Haiku]
The Wall of Sprawl [Lyric Poem]
Vines crawl along the wall -- an organism in sprawl. Their leaves turn red, arterial at the ends, venous in late Fall.
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Autumn Afternoon [Haiku]
autumn afternoon. the sun penetrates deeply, feeding the grass
