Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 8, Number 6
(November 2006)

 

Freda Cox. Designing and Creating a Mediterranean Garden. Ramsbury [England]: Crowood Press (distributed by Trafalgar Square Publishing), 2005.

Sandra Leibowitz Earley. Ecological Design and Building Schools: Green Guide to Educational Opportunities in the United States and Canada. Oakland, Calif.: New Village Press, 2005.

Shirley Felts. The Iwokrama Rain Forest. Georgetown, Guyana: Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development (distributed by Stylus Publishing), 2003.

Ann Forsyth and Laura R. Musacchio with Frank Fitzgerald. Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005.

Simon Hickmott. Growing Unusual Vegetables: Weird and Wonderful Edibles and How to Grow Them. Bristol [England]: Eco-logic Books (distributed by Chelsea Green), 2003.

Stanley Kunitz with Genine Lentine. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden. New York: Norton, 2005.

Mary Ellen Polson. Curb Appeal Idea Book. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 2006.

Denny Schrock (editor). All About Garden Pools & Fountains. Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Publishing, 2006.

Jonathan W. Silvertown. Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Melanie L. Simo. Literature of Place: Dwellings on the Land before Earth Day 1970. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Wayne A. Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon. Diseases of Trees and Shrubs. Second edition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Pub. Associates, 2005.

David Squire. Successful Bonsai: Raising Miniature Trees. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2006.

Patrick Taylor (editor). The Oxford Companion to the Garden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Alan Titchmarsh. The Gardener’s Year: The Ultimate Month-by-Month Gardening Handbook. London: BBC Books (distributed by Trafalgar Square Publishing), 2005.

Zohara Yaniv and Uriel Bachrach (editors). Handbook of Medicinal Plants. Binghampton, N.Y.: Food Products Press, 2005.

David E. Young and Michiko Young. The Art of the Japanese Garden. North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 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

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