Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 8, Number 1
(January 2006)

 

Elizabeth J. Czarapata. Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest: An Illustrated Guide to their Identification and Control. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Jeff Day. Containers with Style. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 2005.

Francesca Greenoak. The Gardens of the National Trust for Scotland. London: Aurum Press (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, Vt.), 2005.

Dennis Horn and Tavia Cathcart (editors). Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians. Auburn, Wash.: Lone Pine Publishing, 2005.

Peter Jeswald. How To Build Paths, Steps, & Footbridges. North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, 2005.

Paul Kenrick and Paul Davis. Fossil Plants. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

Chris Lane. Witch Hazels. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2005.

John Leland. Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005.

Ann Lindsay and Syd House. The Tree Collector: The Life and Explorations of David Douglas. London: Aurum Press (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, Vt.), 2005.

Char Miller. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.

Sue Minter. The Healing Garden: A Practical Guide for Physical & Emotional Well–being. London: Eden Project Books (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, Vt.), 2005.

Gil Nelson. East Gulf Coastal Plain Wildflowers. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2005.

David Sauter. Landscape Construction. Second edition. Clifton Park, N.Y.: Thomson/Delmar Learning, 2005.

Tony Sweet. Fine Art Flower Photography: Creative Techniques and the Art of Observation. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2005.

Beth Fowkes Tobin. Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760–1820. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

 

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