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 reviews@chicagobotanic.org

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