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The Sceptical Botanist

The Sceptical Botanist

Separating Fact from Fiction

by Tim Entwisle
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Publication Date: 01/08/2025
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Do trees talk to one another? Can a plant use up the oxygen in a room while you sleep? What is a native plant and what is a weed? Are some plants truly immortal?

Through 50 beautifully crafted essays, former director of preeminent botanic gardens and self-confessed plant punk Tim Entwisle shines a gentle light on everyday questions about plants and gardens, guiding the reader through fact and fiction.

Including the best of his contributions to gardening magazines and newspapers over four decades, as well as 24 pieces written specially for this book, The Sceptical Botanist is a tour de force of investigative writing from one of Australia’s most thoughtful and inquisitive botanical minds.

Pick up The Sceptical Botanist and you’ll never look at a plant or garden in the same way again!

'Entwisle is a confident explorer and guide. Whether he’s exploring our relationships with plants, the way that scientists think, or the reasons for some very unnatural beliefs about nature, his humour, integrity and lightly-worn knowledge shine through.' – Professor Jonathan Drori, CBE

ISBN:
9781486318216
9781486318216
Category:
Popular science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2025
Publisher:
CSIRO Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
210x135x19mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Tim Entwisle

Tim Entwisle is an Australian botanist. He has worked as executive director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, director of Conservation, Living Collections and Estates at Kew Gardens in London and is currently director of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. He is an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and is president of the International Association of Botanic Gardens.

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Literary essays Trees Popular science Biodiversity Botany & plant sciences Horticulture Science: general issues
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