Botany: How Plants Grow, Feed, Flower and Reproduce, Explained for Gardeners, Students and Curious Beginners

If you have ever pinched the tip out of a fuchsia to make it bushy, hardened off seedlings before planting them out, or cursed a row of lettuces that shot up into flower in a hot spell, you have already done a fair amount of botany. You just haven’t had the names for it. This book gives you the names, and the reasons behind them.

Botany is the study of what plants are made of, how they work, how they reproduce and how they are related. For a gardener, it is the difference between following...