Taming the Potted Beast

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 Beastexplores the history of our air-purifying friends with an entertaining narrative of the peculiar, often dramatic story of the cultivation and domestication of the not-so-humble houseplant.Including entertaining historical vignettes, D...