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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Titlesort icon Author Volume Number Publication Date
Landprints: The Landscape Design of Bernard Trainor Susan Heeger 15 3 2013
Landscape Alchemy: The Work of Hargreaves Associates George Hargreaves, Julia Czerniak, Anita Berrizbetia, and Liz Campbell Kelly 12 2 2009 Landscape Alchemy: The Work of Hargreaves Associates
Landscape and Garden Design: Lessons from History Gordon Haynes 15 3 2013
Landscape Construction David Sauter 8 1 2005 Landscape Construction
Landscape Ecology in Action Almo Farina 3 1 2000 Landscape Ecology in Action
Landscape in India: Forms and Meanings Amita Sinha 9 2 2006 Landscape in India: Forms and Meanings
Landscape Planning: Practical Techniques for the Home Gardener. Second edition Judith Adam 10 3 2008 Landscape Planning: Practical Techniques for the Home Gardener. Second edition
Landscape Plants for Texas and Environs Michael A. Arnold 5 3 2002 Landscape Plants for Texas and Environs
Landscaping with Conifers and Ginkgo for the Southeast Tom Cox and John M. Ruter 15 3 2013
Landscaping with Fruit: A Homeowner’s Guide Lee Reich 11 3 2009 Landscaping with Fruit: A Homeowner’s Guide
Landscaping with Herbs James Adams 4 1 2001 Landscaping with Herbs
Landscaping: Principles and Practices Jack E. Ingels 6 3 2004 Landscaping: Principles and Practices
Landscaping: The DIY Guide to Planning, Planting, and Building a Better Yard John Kelsey 14 4 2012 Landscaping: The DIY Guide to Planning, Planting, and Building a Better Yard
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv 7 6 2005 Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Lavender: How to Grow and Use the Fragrant Herb Ellen Spector Platt 1 3 1999 Lavender: How to Grow and Use the Fragrant Herb
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are Paul Robbins 10 1 2007 Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
Learn to Garden Guy Barter (editor) 8 2 2005 Learn to Garden
Led by the Land: Landscapes by Kim Wilkie Kim Wilkie 14 4 2012 Led by the Land: Landscapes by Kim Wilkie
Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism Michael J. Lannoo 12 6 2010 Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism
Lessons from Mother Earth Elaine McLeod 5 2 2002 Lessons from Mother Earth
Life Along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterways from Norfolk to Key West Robert L. Lippson and Alice Jane Lippson 12 1 2009 Life Along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers,
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth Andrew H. Knoll 6 6 2003 Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
Light and Plant Development Garry C. Whitelam and Karen J. Halliday (editors) 9 6 2007 Light and Plant Development
Lilacs for the Garden Jennifer Bennett 5 1 2002 Lilacs for the Garden
Linnaeus: Nature and Nation Lisbet Koerner 2 2 1999 Linnaeus: Nature and Nation
Literature of Place: Dwellings on the Land before Earth Day 1970 Melanie L. Simo 8 6 2005 Literature of Place: Dwellings on the Land before Earth Day 1970
Little Farm in the Foothills: A Boomer Couple's Search for the Slow Life Susan Colleen Browne and John F. Browne 11 5 2009 Little Farm in the Foothills: A Boomer Couple's Search for the Slow Life
Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History Diana Wells 12 5 2010 Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History
Living Landscapes: Creative Visions of the Wild Andy Rouse 12 2 2009 Living Landscapes: Creative Visions of the Wild
Living Monet: The artist’s gardens Doris Kutschbach 14 4 2012 Living Monet: The artist’s gardens
Llewellyn's 2010 Herbal Almanac Sharon Leah (editor) 11 5 2009 Llewellyn's 2010 Herbal Almanac
Locally Grown: Portraits of Artisanal Farms From America’s Heartland Anna Blessing 14 5 2012 Locally Grown: Portraits of Artisanal Farms From America’s Heartland
Long-Term Dynamics of Lakes in the Landscape: Long-Term Ecological Research on North Temperate Lakes John J. Magnuson, Timothy K Kratz, and Barbara J. Bensen (editors) 9 1 2006 Long-Term Dynamics of Lakes in the Landscape: Long-Term Ecological Research on N
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America’s Richest Forest Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall 15 2 2012 Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America’s Richest Forest
Lost Land of the Dodo: The Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume 10 5 2008 Lost Land of the Dodo: The Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigu
Lotus Mandala: Sacred Garden Tarthang Tulku 14 6 2012 Lotus Mandala: Sacred Garden
Louis Benech, Douze Jardins en France Eric Jansen 15 1 2012 Louis Benech, Douze Jardins en France
Luis Barragán’s Gardens of El Pedregal Keith L. Eggener 6 3 2001 Luis Barragán’s Gardens of El Pedregal