Rachel Fout did not start out knowing anything about plants. She killed her first several. Then she learned something that changed everything: there's no such thing as a green thumb. Just information and a little patience.

Now she has grow lights in every room, a propagation problem she calls "a wonderful problem to have," and a husband who once watered her fake plant for months. She lives in Arizona, where she and her husband Jamie have turned their home into something that requires a garden hose to water properly.

Confessions of a Reformed Plant Killer is her first book. She is already propagating ideas for the next one.