Why do Jasmine Flowers make you Alluring?

‘Why do jasmine flowers make you more sexually alluring? When is an apple not an apple? Are trees the tallest plants? Why should tadpoles look out for Fairy Aprons? What could I grow on Mars? This book answers hundreds of intriguing questions about flowers, plants and trees for which you thought you’d never find an answer: such as why are some plants edible and some poisonous?’

A well researched book of miscellanea with a gardening slant. Caroline Holmes is a garden historian and authour of ‘The Not so Little Book of Dung’.

Oh and the twice a year flowering Sweet Violet or Viola odorata ‘occasionally toys with passing insects on first flowering but so revels in the high seed production levels of DIY pollination, that it shrinks away from the insect when it tries to alight.’

This book is our Gardening Book of the Month for December 2010