Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 11, Number 4
(July 2009)

 

Helena Attlee. Italian Gardens: Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age. New York: Monacelli Press, 2009.

Judy Barrett. What Can I do With my Herbs? How to Grow, Use & Enjoy These Versatile Plants. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009.

Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer. Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia. Third edition. Kenthurst, N.S.W., Australia: Rosenberg Publishing (distributed in the U.S. by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Ore.), 2009.

Glen L. Creasy and Leroy L. Creasy. Grapes. Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, 2009.

Ellen Dugan. Garden Witch’s Herbal: Green Magick, Herbalism & Spirituality. Woodbury, Minn.: Llewelyn Publications, 2009.

Nancy Gift. A Weed by Any Other Name: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants we Don’t Plant. Boston: Beacon Press, 2009.

Tim Haas and Jan Beane. The Herb Garden Gourmet: Grow Herbs, Eat Well, and Be Green. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 2009.

Gail Harland and Sofia Larrinu-Craxton. Tomato: A Guide to the Pleasures of Choosing, Growing, and Cooking. New York: DK Publishing, 2009.

Betty Vos Hemstad. Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking through the Seasons. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.

Louisa Jones. The Garden Visitor’s Companion. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009.

Glenn Keator. California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Peggy Kochanoff. You Can Be a Nature Detective. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing, 2009.

Stuart Robertson. Stuart Robertson’s Tips on Container Gardening. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 2008.

Michael Schacker. A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder had Endangered our Food Supply. Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2008.

Jane S. Smith. The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.

Juliet C. Stromberg and Barbara Tellman (editors). Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.

Janet Waymark. Thomas Mawson: Life, Gardens and Landscapes. London: Frances Lincoln, 2009.

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