Hi everybody it's Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the

Joe Gardner show a few episodes back you likely recalled a wonderful conversation

I had with Amy Stewart about her New York Times best-selling new book, The Tree Collectors.

Today, just in time for Halloween, we are back in conversation with Amy and another one of her best-selling

books, Wicked Plants.

This is a timeless book.

With 39 plants featured to be Wicked in one way or another,

you'll recognize many of these plants, in fact fact it's not unlikely that right now you have at least one of them

growing in your very own yard and that was one of my biggest aha's from her book

One of the deadliest seeds grown in a pod from a vine that was

very prominent in my childhood backyard. And it's amazing that I'm still here today because that seed could easily be mistaken for candy.

And you'll hear what I mean in just a minute.

Amy Stewart is a prolific writer.

In fact, she's written 14 books so far with over 1 million copies sold and

translations into 18 languages. And here's a fun fact related to the book we're talking

about today. In 2009, Wicked Plants was adapted into a

national traveling exhibit that terrified children at science museums

nationwide for over a decade. Wicked Plants is absolutely a fun and

enlightening book and having the chance to talk about some of those Wicked Plants

with Amy today makes it even better. So let's get started and as we do, thanks to our

sponsor for today's episode, Milorgonite. Whenever I'm adding

supplemental fertilizer here at the Garden Farm, I use Malorganite. For nearly a hundred

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