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 reviews@chicagobotanic.org

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