Amy Stewart The Drunken Botanist hummingbirdfeeder Clusters of lightly-scented white flowers

Clusters of lightly-scented white flowers with a coppery-bronze blotch in spring

double violet-blue blooms in fall

vivid periwinkle blue flowers from late spring to fall

First Lady Clematis

They hold lots of water

Amy Stewart The Drunken Botanist hummingbirdfeeder Clusters of lightly-scented white flowersThe Plants that create the world's great drinks by Seattle Author Amy Stewart. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries. Of