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 reviews@chicagobotanic.org

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