This book is all about how leaves function, down to the nitty gritty science in the individual cells. I really wanted to like it, and learn from it, but I couldn’t stay focused. The author has a friendly voice, good examples and I appreciate that he often gives simple experiments you can do at home to test or prove to yourself what he’s explaining. He sticks the mathematical equations in the footnotes, so you can skip those- but still, the science was a bit too much for my brain. I could only read a few pages at a time and then I’d have to go back and re-read to make sure I understood it. I got through the chapters on diffusion and osmosis, stuck halfway through the one on flow, and didn’t feel like picking it up again. It’s definitely a book I want to try again someday though.
Borrowed from the public library.