Field notes for walls that could use a little irony

Guides

• The Plants That Built America, and the Ones It Lost

  A natural history for the 250th: the species behind the colonial economy, the ones the country lost, and the ones the official story leaves in the footnotes.

• What Your Birthday Flowers Are Actually Doing

  The pretty flowers on a birthday card were busy surviving long before they meant anything. What roses, peonies, and the rest are actually up to — with free printable gift tags.

• What Your Christmas Tree, Cookies, and Wreath Actually Are

  Almost every plant on the Christmas table was doing something else first, usually older and often pagan. A botanical history from The Mordant Press.

• The Garden Is Trying to Kill You. Mostly Not the Plants You'd Suspect.

  A field guide to the genuinely lethal, the merely theatrical, and a few plants that earned their reputation the hard way. Vintage botanical engravings from The Mordant Press.

Prints

Wormwood Belladonna Fly Agaric Death Cap Shaggy Ink Cap Cinnamon American Ginseng Cardamom Franklin Tree Eastern White Pine Mountain Laurel Sugar Maple American Chestnut Tobacco Giant Sequoia American Beaver Indigo Kudzu Maize American Bison Pawpaw Ohio Buckeye Rhododendron Douglas Fir Poinsettia Mistletoe English Holly American Cranberry Christmas Cactus Field Pumpkin Pomegranate Mandrake Fraser Fir Foxglove