🌿 Greetings & Salutations! 🌿 I am OhMyDio, a nature enthusiast & I am just so jazzed to be sharing this quest with you! It was super fun to sort through plant books and curate this selection, and I sincerely hope you find some cool Plant Facts™️ among these pages. Let's talk through my goal for this quest, and some housekeeping:

❔ What Is This Quest? ❔ I've opted to curate books that: 🌱 Focus on a particular type or a specific plant or fungus 🪴 Engage in ethno/botony, environmental science, mycology, and ecology 🌷 Celebrate the natural world

My goal is to highlight how wondrous, delightful, strange, unique, and important these living organisms are. I hope that through reading these books you'll grow in your appreciation of plants, mushrooms, moss, and more! These books touch on environmental science, ecology, botany, mycology, and sometimes use nature/plants as framing device for memoirs that explore how we relate to, and exist along side, nature.

❓ What is this quest not? ❓ 🧑‍🌾 Gardening or plant/medicine dictionary style content 🐞 Heavily focused on animal or bug life 🍅 History of food or ingredients

These are not gardening how-to's or purely reference materials - there is a narrative aspect to these books. To leave room for more natural science quests in the future, we also are not heavily focusing on animals, bugs, or plants/fungi as food ingredients, although books may touch on these things in their scope.

🏡 House Keeping 🏡 I will occasionally be updating this quest with additional books. If you have suggestions for books to add, please see this thread: link and drop your suggestions there. Keeping suggestions in that thread helps me stay organized. Please do not make a new thread with book suggestions to help keep the space tidy.

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As we embark on this quest together I would love to know what about Plant Books™️ gets you excited, and what familiarity you may already have. Are you an avid gardener longing to learn about wild plants? Are you a city-dweller lamenting the cement jungle that surrounds you? Are you new to non-fiction and plant books sound approachable? Let us know!

🌿 Thanks for joining me & Happy reading! 🌿

Hey all,

I don't know if it is just because I am moving into middle age that I am wanting to ask, but - why is the most comfortable way for you to personally read?

Tell me about your comfy reading habits. Is listening to an audiobook while on a hike the best for you? A certain configuration on the couch? A beloved recliner? Flopped in bed under covers but with your limbs at specific angles? Only while sitting like book lovin' ladies in 1900's paintings, with your back straight and arms somehow holding the book at eye level for a straight neck/spine even though the only arm workouts you are permitted is embroidery (this is not a dig on fiber arts, I love cross stitch myself)?

TELL ME. I am fascinated by this topic.

The obviously follow up is: for how long is this comfy reading comfy?