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Amy Stewart, poison plants author and garden blogger, speaks in Barrington Saturday

7:39 AM Fri, May 22, 2009 |
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stewart.jpgJust before the opening of her summerlong exhibit Wicked Plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, author and garden blogger (Dirt, Garden Rant), Amy Stewart will be stopping by the Barrington Public Library Saturday at 3 p.m.

Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities, her latest book. details the pretties of a poisoner's garden. The Journal's Tom Meade interviewed her about it (Are there pretty poisons growing in your garden?) and she was featured Wednesday in a profile in the New York Times (Warning: Paralysis May Result), which visited her at her home in Eureka, Calif.

The illustrations -- copper-plate etchings --created for the book by Briony Morrow-Cribbs are stunning -- that's an oleander leading the page.

We go back as early bloggers: Amy's earlier blogs are still out there -- Humboldt Hens , "The pampered lives of our backyard chickens, along with crazy chicken news from around the world" and Worms of Endearment, the topic of an earlier book, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms.

The photo of Amy is courtesy of KC Kratt.

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