Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781565124387 (1565124383)
Publish date: January 4th 2007
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages no: 306
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
History,
Book Club,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Business,
Gardening,
Plants
Rating: 2.5* of fiveI don't like flowers. I know most of you will think of that as an admission, but I think of it as a statement of character. Flowers are the female porn stars of the plant world: Look! Look!! These are my genitals, all splayed out and unnaturally manipulated to get you big, drooli...
Since I suffer from allergies to everything that grows, I'm not the sort of person to keep vases of flowers around. But this book is fascinating, even if one isn't particularly flowery.