Plants and audiobooks

It's spring, and that means it's time to get excited about plants again (or sneeze at them, if you prefer).  Why not try listening to an audiobook while you get your lawn and garden cleaned up?

Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief will show you the world of extreme flower obsession--because who knew there was a flower-selling subculture, let alone a sometimes criminal one?
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Barbara Kingsolver may be better known for her fiction, but her account of moving her family to a farm in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is also compelling.  She focuses on the importance and the pleasure of growing your own food to remind us that food doesn't have to come in cans or plastic bags.

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Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser shows us the criminal plant-selling subculture that we did know about.  He explores how marijuana (as well as porn and illegal immigration) forms a substantial, if unsavoury, part of the American economy that affects even mainstream business and government.

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For the more literary-minded of us, there's Larry's Party by Carol Shields.  Larry is a florist who develops a love for garden mazes, and this CBC Radio adaptation of the novel follows Larry and his family through the everyday progression of life. 

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