A guide to the ways in which plants enhance our daily lives, from the essential functions of making our planet habitable, through meeting basic needs, such as food and clothing, to inspiring our creativity. Explores the way in which plants are used and explains how their extraordinary properties make them perfect for the job. Each of the 51 'things' offers a different activity or insight into how we can interact with plants, be it from making perfumes, or making tea, to reducing noise, improving office productivity, or building a den. From global to community, and to individual, there are a huge range of topics and activities included. This book offers an ecological journey into the world of plants and their importance in our daily lives, often in unusual ways, and will guide the reader to sustainably connect with the botanical bounty around us, for our own benefit, and the planet's.

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Title: Things to do with Plants
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens, GB
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1842467794
ISBN 13: 9781842467794
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New

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A creative guide to the way plants can help us improve our lives sustainably.

Things to do with Plants offers a guide to the ways in which plants enhance our daily lives, from the essential functions of making our planet habitable, through meeting our basic needs, to inspiring our creativity. Emma Crawforth explores the variety of ways we use plants and offers different activities and insight into how we can interact with them, including using them to make perfumes or tea, reduce noise, improve office productivity, or even build a den. Crawforth ranges from the global to the community and individual level, covering a huge range of topics and activities. An engaging ecological journey into the world of plants and their often little-considered importance in our lives, Things to Do with Plants will guide the reader to sustainably connect with the botanical richness around us.

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Emma Crawforth is the gardening editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.

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