Current Books & Book Reviews

Current Books on Gardening & Botany is an Internet-only journal reviewing new books and other media about gardening, horticulture, and botany. Reviews cover a wide range of new literature in print and digital form and are written primarily by the staff of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

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Title Author Publication Date
California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide Helen Popper 2012 California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide
California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts Glenn Keator 2009 California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts
California’s Wild Gardens: A Guide to Favorite Botanical Sites Phyllis M. Faber 2005 California’s Wild Gardens: A Guide to Favorite Botanical Sites
Canyon Country Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers, Shrubs, and Trees Damian Fagan 2012
Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden Laura Mayer 2011 Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden
Captured Landscape: The Paradox of the Enclosed Garden Kate Baker 2012 Captured Landscape: The Paradox of the Enclosed Garden
Carnivorous Plants Rebecca L. Johnson 2007 Carnivorous Plants
Carrots and Related Vegetable Umbelliferae V.E. Rubatzky, C.F. Quiros and P.W. Simon 1999 Carrots and Related Vegetable Umbelliferae
Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History David L. Wagner 2005 Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural His
Chalk and Limestone Gardening: A Guide to Success on Alkaline Soils Sarah Coles 2005 Chalk and Limestone Gardening: A Guide to Success on Alkaline Soils
Changes in Landscape: The Beginning of Horticulture in the California Mission Michael R. Hardwick 2005 Changes in Landscape: The Beginning of Horticulture in the California Mission
Changes in Scenery: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Europe Thies Schröder 2001 Changes in Scenery: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Europe
Changing Landscapes: The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and its Influence on Tropical Forest Management Duncan Poore 2003 Changing Landscapes: The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organi
Charcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility James Bruges 2009 Charcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility
Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden Peter Willis 2002 Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden
Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course Charles Dowding 2012 Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage Robert Michael Pyle 1999 Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
Chatham Village: Pittsburgh’s Garden City Angelique Bamberg 2011 Chatham Village: Pittsburgh’s Garden City
Chinese Medicinal Herbs: A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual Shizhen Li 2003 Chinese Medicinal Herbs: A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual
Chinoiseries Bernd H. Dams and Andrew Zega 2008 Chinoiseries
Chocolate: A Healthy Passion Shara Aaron and Monica Bearden 2008 Chocolate: A Healthy Passion
Choosing and Using Climbing Plants Barbara Abbs 2003 Choosing and Using Climbing Plants
Choosing Small Trees Peter McHoy 2000 Choosing Small Trees
Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers Christopher Lloyd 2000 Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers
Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California Jan Timbrook 2008 Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern Califo
Cities and Water: A Handbook for Planning Roger L. Kemp, editor 2009 Cities and Water: A Handbook for Planning
City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening In America Laura J. Lawson 2005 City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening In America
City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing Lorraine Johnson 2010 City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing
Clematis for All Seasons John Feltwell 1999 Clematis for All Seasons
Climbing Gardens: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden Joan Clifton 2003 Climbing Gardens: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden
Clivias Harold Koopowitz 2002 Clivias
Cloudehill: A Year in the Garden Jeremy Francis 2010 Cloudehill: A Year in the Garden
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: A People’s Garden William Cullina, Dorothy E. Freeman, and Barbara Hill Freeman 2012 Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: A People’s Garden
Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Story of the World’s Most Popular Brew Morton Satin 2011 Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Story of the World’s Most Popular Brew
Collins Flower Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Flowers of Britain and Europe David Streeter, C. Hart-Davies, A. Hardcastle, F. Cole, and L. Harper 2009 Collins Flower Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Flowers of Britain and Eur
Collins Fungi Guide Stefan Buczacki 2012 Collins Fungi Guide
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan (editors) 2005 Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters 1760–1820 Beth Fowkes Tobin 2005 Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters 1760–1820
Color for Adventurous Gardeners Christopher Lloyd 2001 Color for Adventurous Gardeners
Colorado Flora, Eastern Slope: A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants Fourth edition William A. Weber and Ronald C. Wittmann 2012 Colorado Flora, Eastern Slope: A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants
Colorado Home & Garden Lover’s Guide Niki Hayden (editor) 2003 Colorado Home & Garden Lover’s Guide
Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests. Second edition R. Kenneth Horst and Raymond A. Cloyd 2007 Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests. Second edition
Compost Editors of Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine and Books 2001 Compost
Compost Ken Thompson 2007 Compost
Computer Gardening Susan Young 2000 Computer Gardening
Conifers of California Ronald Lanner 1999 Conifers of California
Conservation and Biodiversity Banking: A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading Systems Nathaniel Carroll, Jessica Fox, and Ricardo Bayon (editors) 2009 Conservation and Biodiversity Banking: A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodive
Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Saving North American’s Western Grasslands John L. Hoogland (editor) 2006 Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Saving North American’s Western Gr
Conservatories: A Complete Guide: Planning, Managing and Completing Your Conservatory Julian Owen 2005 Conservatories: A Complete Guide: Planning, Managing and Completing Your Conser
Conservatory Style: Garden Rooms, Glasshouses, and Sunrooms Jackum Brown 2007 Conservatory Style: Garden Rooms, Glasshouses, and Sunrooms
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Changes K.N. Ninan (editor) 2009 Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Instituti
Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Virginia Margaret T. Peters 2008 Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Vi
Consider the Leaf: Foliage in Garden Design Judy Glattstein 2003 Consider the Leaf: Foliage in Garden Design
Container Gardening Rich Binsacca 2000 Container Gardening
Container Gardening through the Seasons Jim Keeling 2007 Container Gardening through the Seasons
Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants Rosemary McCreary 2001 Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants
Container Topiary Susan Berry 2003 Container Topiary
Containers with Style Jeff Day 2005 Containers with Style
Contemporary Color: Top Designers, Inspiring Ideas, New Combinations Andrew Wilson 2011 Contemporary Color: Top Designers, Inspiring Ideas, New Combinations
Continuous Bloom Pam Duthie 2000 Continuous Bloom
Continuous Container Gardens: Swap in the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh Designs Year-round Sara Begg Townsend and Roanne Robbins 2011 Continuous Container Gardens: Swap in the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh D
Conversations With My Gardener Henri Cueco 2006 Conversations With My Gardener
Correas: Australian Plants for Waterwise Gardens Maria Hitchcock 2010 Correas: Australian Plants for Waterwise Gardens
Cottage Gardens Teri Dunn 1999 Cottage Gardens
Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening Robert Morris Copeland 2009 Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening
Courtyard Gardens Toby Musgrave 2000 Courtyard Gardens
Covering Ground: Unexpected Ideas for Landscaping with Colorful, Low–Maintenance Ground Covers Barbara W. Ellis 2007 Covering Ground: Unexpected Ideas for Landscaping with Colorful, Low–Maintenance
Creating a Cottage Garden in North America Stephen Westcott-Gratton 2000 Creating a Cottage Garden in North America
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops Martin Crawford 2010 Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
Creating Good Gardens Roger Holmes and Eleanor Lewis 2000 Creating Good Gardens
Creating Realistic Landscapes for Model Railways Tony Hill 2010 Creating Realistic Landscapes for Model Railways
Creating Your Eco–Friendly Garden Mary Horsfall 2008 Creating Your Eco–Friendly Garden
Creative Water Effects in the Garden Gilly Love 2012 Creative Water Effects in the Garden
Crystal Palaces: Garden Conservatories of the United States Anne S. Cunningham 2000 Crystal Palaces: Garden Conservatories of the United States
Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture and Politics in the Reign of Louis IV Elizabeth Hyde 2005 Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture and Politics in the Reign of Louis IV
Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens Timothy C. Hohn 2008 Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens
Curb Appeal Idea Book Mary Ellen Polson 2006 Curb Appeal Idea Book