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
Wading for Bugs: Exploring Streams with the Experts Judith L. Li and Michael T. Barbour (editors) 14 2 2011 Wading for Bugs: Exploring Streams with the Experts
Waking up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island Lucinda Fleeson 11 5 2009 Waking up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
Walking Seasonal Roads Mary A. Hood 14 5 2012 Walking Seasonal Roads
Walls: Elements of Garden and Landscape Architecture Günter Mader and Elke Zimmermann 13 3 2011 Walls: Elements of Garden and Landscape Architecture
Water-Efficient Gardening John Marder 12 5 2009 Water-Efficient Gardening
Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America Alan E. Bessette, William C. Roddy, Walter E. Sturgeon, and Arleen R. Bessette 14 4 2012 Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America
Weathering Winter: A Gardener’s Daybook Carl H. Klaus 6 1 2003 Weathering Winter: A Gardener’s Daybook
Webb’s An Irish flora John Parnell and Tom Curtis 14 5 2012 Webb’s An Irish flora
Weed Biology and Climate Change Lewis H. Ziska and Jeffrey S. Dukes 13 3 2011 Weed Biology and Climate Change
Weed Risk Assessment R.H. Groves, F.D. Panetta, and J.G. Virtue (editors) 3 5 2001 Weed Risk Assessment
Weeds in My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants Charles B. Heiser 6 3 2003 Weeds in My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants
Weeds of the Northern U.S. and Canada: A Guide for Identification France Royer and Richard Dickinson 2 2 1999 Weeds of the Northern U.S. and Canada: A Guide for Identification
Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America Zachary J.S. Falck 13 5 2010 Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America
Weslandia Paul Fleischman 1 2 1999 Weslandia
Wetland and Riparian Areas of the Intermountain West: Ecology and Management Mark C. McKinstry, Wayne A. Hubert, and Stanley H. Anderson (editors) 7 4 2004 Wetland and Riparian Areas of the Intermountain West: Ecology and Management
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses Daniel Chamovitz 14 4 2012 What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
What Can I Do With My Herbs? How to Grow, Use & Enjoy These Versatile Plants Judy Barrett 11 4 2009 What Can I Do With My Herbs? How to Grow, Use & Enjoy These Versatile Plants
What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean? Lauren Child 5 1 2002 What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?
When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert John Alcock 12 1 2009 When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert
Which Seed is This? Lisa J. Amstutz 14 4 2012 Which Seed is This?
White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes Raymund Ryan 15 1 2012 White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes
Whose Garden Is It Mary Ann Hoberman 6 5 2004 Whose Garden Is It
Why People Need Plants Carlton Wood and Nicolette Habgood (editors) 13 2 2010 Why People Need Plants
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity Gary Paul Nabhan 7 4 2004 Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects Amy Stewart 13 5 2011 Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects
Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities Amy Stewart 12 1 2009 Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrociti
Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays Henry David Thoreau 5 1 2002 Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays
Wild Flowers of North Carolina William S. Justice, C. Ritchie Bell, and Anne H. Lindsey 7 3 2005 Wild Flowers of North Carolina
Wild in the City: Exploring the Intertwine, The Portland–Vancouver Region’s Network of Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas Michael C. Houck and M.J. Cody (editors) 14 2 2011 Wild in the City: Exploring the Intertwine, The Portland–Vancouver Region’s Net
Wild Orchids of the Prairies and Great Plains Region of North America Paul Martin Brown 9 2 2006 Wild Orchids of the Prairies and Great Plains Region of North America
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide Peter Del Tredici 12 4 2010 Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide
Wildflower Gardens: 60 Spectacular Plants and How to Grow Them in Your Garden C. Colston Burrell (editor) 10 5 2007 Wildflower Gardens: 60 Spectacular Plants and How to Grow Them in Your Garden
Wildflower Wonders: The 50 Best Wildflower Sites in the World Bob Gibbons 14 1 2011 Wildflower Wonders: The 50 Best Wildflower Sites in the World
Wildflowers Marfe Ferguson Delano 5 3 2002 Wildflowers
Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont Timothy P. Spira 13 6 2011 Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont
Wildflowers of California: A Month-by-Month Guide Laird R. Blackwell 14 4 2012 Wildflowers of California: A Month-by-Month Guide
Wildflowers of Door County: Wisconsin's Unique Floral Preserve Paul and Marilyn Mahlberg 3 6 2000 Wildflowers of Door County: Wisconsin's Unique Floral Preserve
Wildflowers of Montana Donald Anthony Schiemann 8 2 2005 Wildflowers of Montana
Wildflowers of Shenandoah National Park Ann and Rob Simpson 14 1 2011 Wildflowers of Shenandoah National Park
Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia Third Edition Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer 11 4 2009 Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia Third Edition
Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians Dennis Horn and Tavia Cathcart (editors) 8 1 2005 Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians
Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons Betty Vos Hemstad 11 4 2009 Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons
Wildflowers of the Eastern United States Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan 3 1 1999 Wildflowers of the Eastern United States
Wildflowers of the Fairest Cape: The Wildflowers of the Western Cape, South Africa Peter Goldblatt and John Manning 3 5 2000 Wildflowers of the Fairest Cape: The Wildflowers of the Western Cape, South Afri
Wildflowers of Unalaska Island: A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island Suzi Golodoff 6 5 2003 Wildflowers of Unalaska Island: A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian I
Wildlife Gardening Rhoda Nottridge 12 1 2009 Wildlife Gardening
Wildlife Sanctuaries & The Audubon Society: Places To Hide & Seek John M. "Frosty" Anderson 3 6 2000 Wildlife Sanctuaries & The Audubon Society: Places To Hide & Seek
Window Gardens for Windows, Walls, Decks, and Balconies Jane Forster and Stephen Roberts 5 1 2002 Window Gardens for Windows, Walls, Decks, and Balconies
Window-Box Allotment Penelope Bennett 14 5 2012 Window-Box Allotment
Windy City Wild: Chicago's Natural Wonders Robert Shaw and Jason Lindsey 3 3 2000 Windy City Wild: Chicago's Natural Wonders
Winter Gardening. Steven Bradley 3 1 2000 Winter Gardening
Win–Win Ecology: How the Earth’s Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise Michael L. Rosenzweig 6 2 2003 Win–Win Ecology: How the Earth’s Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Ente
Wisconsin’s Champion Trees R. Bruce Allison 7 2 2005 Wisconsin’s Champion Trees
Witch Hazels Chris Lane 8 1 2005 Witch Hazels
Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice Louise A. Mozingo and Linda Jewell, editors 14 5 2012 Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur Gertrude Jekyll 14 1 2011 Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateu
World Atlas of Mangroves Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma, and Lorna Collins 13 1 2010 World Atlas of Mangroves