While Schlanger describes the book as “a beautiful collection of myths,” the irresponsible and unsubstantiated claims it made tainted the entire field of plant behavior research.

Just recently I started re-reading “The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert. From the beginning, you’re immersed in the era of plant discovery. It was an exciting time and ...

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives. By Elizabeth A. Harris Zoë Schlanger was a reporter covering climate change ...

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults is a wonderful book about living lightly on Earth and showing respect and gratitude for it. I knew I was going to enjoy the book when the author states an ...

“Black Girls Gardening: Empowering Stories and Garden Wisdom for Healing and Flourishing in Nature” by Amber Grossman c.2025, Chronicle Books $26.95 240 pages “Mythic Plants: Potions and ...

This is the description of a new book titled “Plant Strategies: The Demographic Consequences of Functional Traits in Changing Environments” that explores this question. The book is written by Daniel ...

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction In “Planta Sapiens,” Paco Calvo addresses our “plant blindness.” By ...

Not bad for a book about plants you can eat published by a small Canadian press. (According to Lone Pine Publishing, it’s “far and away” their highest selling title.) Open this photo in gallery: ...

A lovely gift for any mom or gardener is a book on the art of yearlong gardening. Books on yearlong gardening. Ann Lovejoy wrote the classic book for Western Washington back in the 1990s entitled ...

Plants, so often the minor characters in stories about charismatic living things, are the stars of this vividly illustrated ode to the power of green. They are food for animals from krill to elephants ...

Learn about native plants for free from the experts April 26-27 at the L.A. Times Plants' Native Plant Booth at the Festival of Books.

Plants are seen among the books, as the Crofton Library has created a Plant Library, complete with plants and educational QR codes. Ellie Coy, 16, a Library Page, right, returns dvd’s to the ...