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Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 12, Number 2
(March 2010)


Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker (editors). Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010.

Marty Crump. Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Claudia Dinep and Kristin Schwab. Sustainable Site Design: Criteria, Process, and Case Studies for Integrating Site and Region in Landscape Design. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2010.

Fran J. Donegan (editor). Smart Guide: Ponds, Fountains, and Waterfalls. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Creative Homeowner, 2010.

John Evelyn. Directions for the Gardiner and other Horticultural Advice. Edited by Maggie Campbell-Culver. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Maria Finn. A Little Piece of Earth: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces. New York: Universe Publishing, 2010.

Michael Forsberg. Great Plains: American’s Lingering Wild. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Kelleann Foster. Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2010.

George Hargreaves, Julia Czerniak, Anita Berrizbetia, and Liz Campbell Kelly. Landscape Alchemy: The Work of Hargreaves Associates. Point Reyes Station, Calif.: ORO Editions, 2009.

Carlos M. Herrera. Multiplicity in Unity: Plant Subindividual Variation & Interactions with Animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Mary Horsfall. Fabulous Food From Every Small Garden. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2009.

Dorothée Imbert. Between Garden and City: Jean Canneel-Claes and Landscape Modernism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Pavel Krasilnikov, Juan-José Ibáñez Martí, Richard Arnold, and Serghei Shoba (editors). A Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classificaton. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2009.

Lanicci, Rachael. Secrets for Attracting Birds: A Bird-by-bird Guide to Favored Plants. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Creative Homeowner, 2010.

Rebecca Laroche. Medical Authority and Englishwomen’s Herbal Texts, 1550–1650. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

Simon Nathan and Mary Varnham (editors). The Amazing World of James Hector. Wellington, New Zealand: Awa Press, 2009.

Pauline Pears. The Garden Organic Guide to Making Compost: Recycling Household and Garden Waste. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, U.K.: Search Press, 2009.

Joseph R. Provey. Successful Container Gardening: 75 Easy-to-grow Flower and Vegetable “Gardens”. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Creative Homeowner, 2010.

Lee Reich. The Pruning Book. Second edition. Newtown, Conn.: Tauton Press, 2010.

Andy Rouse. Living Landscapes: Creative Visions of the Wild. London: Argentum, 2009.

Edward C. Smith. The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. Second edition. North Adams, Mass.: Storey, 2009.

Kálmán Vánky and Roger G. Shivas. Fungi of Australia: The Smut Fungi. Collingswood Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2008.

Twigs Way. Topiary. Oxford (U.K.): Shire Publications, 2010.

Sarah Whittingham. The Victorian Fern Craze. Oxford (U.K.): Shire Publications, 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