My Latest Books
Rotten Botany
The strangler fig. The bleeding tooth fungus. The corpse plant. Rotten Botany is a garden lover’s ticket to an excursion into the deep underbelly of the kingdoms of plants and fungi. A world filled with botanical oddities that will haunt your dreams and inspire a very twisted garden of your own.
Beyond the eerie aesthetics, Rotten Botany delves into each plant’s scientific and common names, origins, ethnobotanical and folkloric uses, and fascinating lore. You’ll also find practical details such as growth habits, growing zones, and cultivation tips, allowing you to nurture your own collection of “rottanicals.” Prepare to encounter real plants that seem ripped from the pages of a horror novel.
Enchanted Plants
From the baneful bog to the garden gate, join me for a romp through the kingdom of plants and explore their stories, legends, and magic.
Ramble through the mystical, magical, and historical gardens where cultivars and wild plants thrive. Enter the Queen’s Garden and pluck a golden apple or snip the perfect rose. Sneak through the gates into of the poison garden where the lascivious and life-saving plants intertwine. Gallop through meadow grass, skirt the boggy glen, amble through woodlands where magical plants beckon from the forest floor.
Don’t forget your knife.
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Varla Ventura
Varla Ventura is a writer, traveler, rotten botanist, and lover of the strange. She has authored eight books on bizarre and freaky things, from the history of paranormal parlor games to plants that smell like corpses to mermaids, vampires, banshees, and other creepy creatures of the fairy realm. She is a committed supernaturalist, folklorist, plant nerd, and seeker of those shadowy things that scrape at your window in the dead of the night.
