Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 7, Number 3
(May 2005)

 

George Bartlett. Fuchsias: A Colour Guide. Ramsbury [U.K.]: Crowood (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, Vt.), 2005, c.1996.

Carol Ann Bassett. Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge. Tucson: Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2004.

Timothy Beatley. Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.

Beth Chatto. Beth Chatto’s Damp Gardens: Moisture–Loving Plants for Year–Round Interest. New York: Sterling, 2005.

William S. Justice, C. Ritchie Bell, and Anne H. Lindsey. Wild Flowers of North Carolina. Second edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Jim Keeling. Flowerpots: A Seasonal Guide to Planting, Designing, and Displaying Pots. North Pomfret, Vt.: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2004.

James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller. Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses. Revised edition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Stephen Scanniello. Jackson & Perkins Rose Companions: Growing Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, Shrubs, and Vines with Roses. Nashville, Tenn.: Cool Springs Press, 2004.

Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan (editors). Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay. Herbarium. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Tracey I. Storer, Robert L. Usinger, and David Lukas. Sierra Nevada Natural History. Revised edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

 

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