Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 10, Number 5
(September 2008)

 

Marianne Binetti and Laura Peters. Herb Gardening for Washington and Oregon. Auburn, Wash.: Lone Pine Publishing, 2008.

C. Colston Burrell (editor). Wildflower Gardens: 60 Spectacular Plants and How to Grow Them in Your Garden. Revised edition. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007.

Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume. Lost Land of the Dodo: The Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion,
and Rodrgues. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008.

Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein. The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving our Natural World. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.

Peter Cox and Peter Hutchison. Seeds of Adventure: In Search of Plants. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Garden Art Press (distributed in the U.S. by Antique Collector's Club., Inc., Easthampton, Mass.), 2008.

David Gledhill. The Names of Plants. Fourth edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Kevin Handreck. Good Gardens with Less Water. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing (distributed in U.S. by Stylus Publishing, Herndon, Va.), 2008.

Robert J. Henry (editor). Plant Genotyping II: SNP Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: CAB International, 2008.

Paul Keddy. Plants and Vegetation: Origins, Processes, Consequences. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

David Mabberley. Mabberley's Plant Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Use. Third edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Douglas J. Nichols and Kirk R. Johnson. Plants and the K-T Boundary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Therese O'Malley and Amy R.W. Meyers (editors). The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400–1850. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art (distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.), 2008.

Deborah Peterson and Millicent Selsam. Don't Throw it, Grow it: 68 Windowsill Plants from Kitchen Scraps. North Adams, Mass.: Storey, 2008.

Richard Reynolds. On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.

Tim Richardson. Avant Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008.

Jan Timbrook. Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2008.

Jessica Walliser. Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically
(all you need to know about the insects in your garden). Pittsburgh, Pa.: St. Lynn's Press, 2008.

 

Current Books is an Internet–only journal reviewing new books about gardening, horticulture and botany. Reviews cover a wide range of new literature in print and are written primarily by the staff and volunteers of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Please send your comments and suggestions to

Edward J. Valauskas
Editor, Current Books on Gardening & Botany
Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden