A large group assembled for Amy Stewart’s tour of Wicked Plants along the Annual Border of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Lily Pool Terrace. 
Saturday afternoon, Blog Widow and I went to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for an afternoon of Wicked Plants: a tour led by Amy Stewart, a book signing, and a cake baked for the occasion. Amy Stewart, rigged with portable amplification 
Ricinus communis, Castor Bean plant 
Book purchase display 
The Cake
A Wicked Cake enters the Lily Pool Terrace 
“Everything is edible, except the boards,” said one of the cake wranglers. Well, that and the stems of the flowers. The flowers were incredibly lifelike. 
It’s hard to justify eating artistry like this. But it was a hot and humid day, so what can you do?! 
Amy regards a Tulip before taking a bite of it. 
Blog Widow peals a petal off a Tulip. It tasted vaguely like wax lips. Technically edible. 
The base was seven layers of chocolate and vanilla cake with mocha cream. Delicious, and worth the wait. 
Glam Shots
Not everything we saw that day was wicked. Double-Flowering Lotus 
Dragonfly 
Hens and Chicks 
Okay, wicked, but kinda cool, huh? 
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Wicked Plants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart Pretty Poison: Plants to Die For, CBS News Sunday Morning, 2009-08-02
Love the cake–did you have a piece?! I won Wicked Plants from Genevieve and enjoyed thumbing through it; the design/layout is cool. I'm way behind in reading though…
The cake was delicious: seven layers, with vanilla and chocolate cake, and mocha cream.
Supposedly Henry James said that "summer afternoon" were the 2 most beautiful words in the English language, but my vote goes to "mocha cream."
Great shots, of the speaker, the bluebottle, and that incredible cake and its technically edible flowers! Wish I'd been along.
I thought "cellar door" were supposed to be the two most beautiful words in the English language?!
I have wanted this book ever since it first came out and I saw her video (hilarious!). Must get it. Maybe she'd send me a copy for review? 😉
Actually, while that would be great, I have no problem buying it either. The very first gardening book of any kind I ever read was by Amy – "From the Ground Up."