Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 11, Number 3
(May 2009)

 

David Austin. The English Roses: Classic Favorites & New Selections. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books, 2008.

Robert Balay (editor). Prairies and Plains: The Reference Literature of a Region. Chicago: KWS Publishers, 2009.

Fern Marshall Bradley and Trevor Cole (editors). The All–new Illustrated Guide to Gardening: Planning, Selection, Propagation, Organic Solutions. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader’s Digest, 2009.

Jean-Luc E. Cartron, David C. Lightfoot, Jane E Mygatt, Sandra L Brantley, and Timothy K. Lowrey. A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Janda Gooding. Brush with Gondwana: The Botanical Artists Group of Western Australia. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press, 2008 (distributed in the U.S. by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Ore.)

James E. Henrich (editor). Durable Plants for the Garden: A Plant Select Guide. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 2009.

F. Nigel Hepper. Pharaoh’s Flowers: The Botanical Treasures of Tutankhamun. Second edition. Chicago: KWS Publishers, 2009.

T. June Li (editor). Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, Huntington’s Chinese Garden. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library Press, 2009.

Tovah Martin. The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2009.

Nalini M. Nadkarni. Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

K.N. Ninan (editor). Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Changes. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2009.

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Break Through: Why we Can’t Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists.. Boston: Mariner Books, 2009, ©2007.

Lee Reich. Landscaping with Fruit: A Homeowner’s Guide. North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, 2009.

Deborah Lee Rose. The Twelve Days of Springtime: A School Counting Book. New York: Abrams, 2009.

Matt Warnock Turner. Remarkable Plants of Texas: Uncommon Accounts of our Common Natives. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

James Wickham. 101 Shade-Loving plants: Ideas to Lighten Shadows.. London: BBC Books, 2008.

Tom Williamson. Sutton Hoo and its Landscape: The Context of Monuments.. Oxford: Windgather Press, 2008 (distributed in the U.S. by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.)

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