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Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 14, Number 1
(January/February 2012)


Cem Akin and Leah Rottke. The Home Orchard Handbook: A Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Fruit Trees Anywhere Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, 2011.

Judy Burris and Wayne Richards. The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs: Discover Amazing Butterflies, Moths, Spiders, Dragonflies, and Other Insects! North Adams, Mass.: Storey, 2011.

Pamela Camp and John G. Gamon (editors). Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

SueEllen Campbell. The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

S. Carter, J.J. Laranos, L.E. Newton, and C.C. Walker. Aloes: The Definitive Guide. Richmond, Surrey, U.K.: Kew Publishing (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2011.

John E. Crowley. Imperial Landscapes: Britain’s Global Visual Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011.

Leslie Day. Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Charles Dowding. How to Grow Winter Vegetables. Dartington, Devon, U.K.: Green Books, 2011.

Richard M. Doyle. Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 2011.

Ahmed Fayaz. Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants: Identification and Cultivation of Over 3,000 Tropical Plants. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2011.

Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, and Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen. Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Bob Gibbons. Wildflower Wonders: The 50 Best Wildflower Sites in the World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore–Gough. The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds. North Adams, Mass.: Storey, 2011.

Matthew Hall. Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany. Albany: State University New York Press, 2011.

Caroline Holmes. Monet at Giverny. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Garden Art Press (imprint of the Antique Collectors’ Club, distributed by ACC Distribution, New York), 2011, c. 2001.

Nancy Nye Hunt. Aldo Leopold’s Shack: Nina’s Story. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2011.

International Garden Photographer of the Year: Collection Four. Kew: Royal Botanic Garden (distributed in the U.S. by the University of Chicago Press), 2011.

Gertrude Jekyll. Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Jeff Malpas (editor). The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.

Katie A. Murphy. The Complete Guide to Preserving Your own Seeds for Your Garden: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply. Ocala, Fla.: Atlantic Publishing Group, 2011.

Gil Nelson. Botanical Keys to Florida’s Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines: A Guide to Field Identification. Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 2011.

Kelby Ouchley. Bayou–Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.

Tim Richardson. Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow’s Outdoor Spaces. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans. The Book of Fungi: A Life–Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Ann and Rob Simpson. Wildflowers of Shenandoah National Park. Guilford, Conn.: Falcon Guides, 2011.

Ellen Sousa. The Green Garden: A New England Guide to Planning, Planting, and Maintaining the Eco–friendly Habitat Garden. Piermont, N.H.: Bunker Hill Publishing, 2011.

Paul Wagland. Garden Landscaping Manual: A Step–by–step Guide to Landscaping & Building Projects in Your Garden. Newbury Park, Calif.: Haynes Publishing, 2011.

Richard P. Wunderlin and Bruce F. Hansen. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. Third edition. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.

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