Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant Beautiful Illustrations where she worked with others

where she worked with others to design fighter planes as well as spacecraft

To their horror

bringing life and beauty to a patch of dirt as bare as a blank page

sometimes fighting with the scientific establishment -- and naming a foul-smelling weed after one such idiot and fool

taking photographs

Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant Beautiful Illustrations where she worked with othersThe colorful, peculiar history of the houseplant from ancient Rome to Victorian England to Instagram a botanical adventure full of histrionic highs, devastating lows, and sensational turning points along the way. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that fiddle leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been humanity's companions for a millennia. Taming the Potted Beast explores the history of our air purifying friends with an entertaining