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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 5, Number 4
(July 2003)

 

Gaylah Balter. Gardening with Soul: Healing the Earth and Ourselves with Feng Shui and Environmental Awareness. Fayetteville, Ark.: Learning Tree Books, 2003.

Susan Berry. Kitchen Harvest: A Cook's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs in Containers. San Diego: Laurel Glen, 2002.

Beth Chatto. Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden. London: Cassell, 2002.

Donald D. Cox. A Naturalist's Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Tracy DiSabato-Aust. The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2003.

Candace Fleming. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. New York: Atheneum, 2002.

David S. Ingram, Daphne Vince-Prue and Peter J. Gregory (editors). Science and the Garden: The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science for the Royal Horticultural Society, 2002.

Dana Lyons. The Tree. Illustrated by David Danioth. Bellevue, Wash.: Illumination Arts, 2002.

Nicholas P. Money. Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Bryan G. Norton. Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Marilyn Raff. The Intuitive Gardener: Finding Creative Freedom in the Garden. Illustrated by Eva Saull. Denver, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2002.

Calvin Simonds. Private Lives of Garden Birds. North Adams, Mass.: Storey Books, 2002.

Robert M. Thorson. Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls. New York: Walker & Company, 2002.

 

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