People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but they should grow plants. At least that's what brown-thumbed gardener Kassinger thought when she decided to convert the deck area of her suburban Maryland home into a garden conservatory worthy of Victorian England. After having successfully jerry-rigged a hothouse setup with plastic sheeting and, yes, duct tape, Kassinger experienced the heady joy of not killing the meager plants she had installed there. "I can do this," she thought, and, in the difficult wake of her sister's premature death from brain cancer and her own bout of breast cancer, she proceeded to do it in a big way. Seamlessly blending her extensive research on the history of conservatories and plant exploration with her own personal anecdotes of raising everything from butterflies to Boston ferns, Kassinger's personal odyssey into the crystalline world of gardening under glass offers an uplifting and instructional message. (Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews.
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