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

Edward J. Valauskas
Editor, Current Books on Gardening & Botany
Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden