This book presents a description of and background information about the flowering plants that have been chosen to represent the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

An introduction to the characteristics of mushrooms, how and where they grow, the different species, and their uses.

Presents a description of and background information about the trees that have been chosen to represent the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

Ken learns how the Tjapukai people of northern Australia construct wind instruments called didgeridoos from local plants.

Ken visits Holland and Italy, home of the tulip and the olive tree respectively, to learn how depictions of these romantic plants have influenced the hearts - and the pocket books - of the people there.

Ken discovers the intimate relationship between the people of Malaysia and the stinky Durian fruit, as well as the passion Cook Islanders have for Taro.

In this episode, Ken enters the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to find the some of the world's oldest, biggest, and strangest plants - frozen in time for future use.

Ken Beattie travels to the South Pacific, where he meets people whose lives have been enhanced by the healing plants that grow in these tropical paradises.

Ken samples mead in a 17th century English manor and meets a young winemaker in the south of France who has learned to make Banyuls using traditional methods.