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The next time that you get in a car, ride a bus, or fly in a plane ask yourself, where the energy came from to take you where you want to go. When you dress yourself in the morning think about the fabrics, colors, and weaves that make up your wardrobe. Where did the fabrics come from? Even if some of your fabrics are synthetics, their designs are based on connections to plants. The foods we eat are plants or they are plants eaten and recycled into animals. Without plants there would be no animals, no civilization, no culture, no us.

So what is not to get excited about in botany?

• Do you know what flower caused China to lose Hong Kong to Britain?
• Why are there plaster roses on the ceilings of conference rooms?
• How do oaks wage war?
• What plant alive today, has no leaves or roots?
• What plant creates its own pot and fertilizers with the help of ants?

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Herbal folklore is presented to provide the reader with information about beliefs and the historical uses of plants. It does NOT sanction the use of herbs as medicines. The plant kingdom contains a huge amount of chemical compounds—beneficial at best, benign in the least, and downright deadly at the worst. Never take something because someone tells you its "All Natural". REMEMBER: Poison ivy is all natural too.

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Of the roughly five hundred thousand plant species on the face of the Earth, which plants changed history and why? Prepare to be shocked, surprised, and delighted.

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Renfield's Garden is dedicated to all the strange plants that have close interrelationships with insects. In other words, those plants Renfield (Dwight Frye, 1931) would have loved to grow in a garden in Transylvania.

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Of all of the approximately five hundred thousand plant species on the face of the Earth, here is where you will find the weirdest of the weird! Some might even be lurking in your own garden and you simply did not realize just how weird they were. Enjoy!

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Throughout history, we have given plants names. Not just scientific names but names with meanings and stories that are intrinsic to our human makeup, our human condition. As generations pass, we are not as close to the earth as we were. Our memories darken. Plants come into favor and pass out again. Here is where we may participate in the exciting rediscovery of lost knowledge and also discover lost connections to common objects that owe their very existence to plants. Enjoy!

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