Article published in Hello Acadia for April 2016 by gardener and writer, Joanne Klein:
Hello Acadia article for May 2016:
It may not be an actual jungle out there, but it might as well be.
Animals, including humans, have it easy. Most of us have legs or some other method of propulsion. If we’re attacked, we respond with movement. Plants don’t have the same luxury. If they’re attacked, they have to resort to things like chemical warfare or the deployment of insect armies in order to retaliate. Actually, we humans may have more in common with plants than originally thought.