Beaglier Books Plants with Superpowers
David Domoney is a familiar face from ITV’s Love your Garden, Britain’s most watched gardening show, and is also the resident gardener on ITV’s This Morning.He is a great enthusiast for the positive power of plants.In this book he gathers together an accessible range of 75 plants, each of which has extraordinary superpowers. These will add something remarkable to your garden and home, with plants for both indoors and out There are also plants that have superpower health-giving properties or have unexpected uses in cooking. Amongst the many examples in the book is the fast-growing ‘mile a minute plant’ that can grow up to 15cm in a single day and can be used in your garden to quickly cover an unsightly fence or shed. There is the Venus fly trap which has a memory and can count; sunflowers which have the ability to remove toxic materials from your soil. Snowdrops can produce their own anti freeze, while the Ginkgo tree can survive an atomic bomb blast. For health, blueberries are nature’s original superfood for the body and can easily be grown. For indoor plants there are many superpower varieties, including air plants that don’t even need a pot or roots as they draw all their nutrients and water from the air.For all the plants that are included in the book, there are reliable growing tips as well as a miscellany of fun, fascinating facts, making the book ideal for both novice and experienced gardeners alike
Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 210h x 160w mm Extent: 176 pages