A review of the book Remembering Smell by Bonnie Blodgett.

I read From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden back in 2005, when I was a novice gardener myself. It was the first gardening book I ever read and I’ve recommended it countless times since then.

American poet Emily Dickinson was also an avid gardener. In fact, her gardening inspired much of her writings. When I first saw Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Facsimile Edition, I immediately wanted it.

As a fairly new gardener (six years), I’d heard the name J.C. Raulston and knew it was important in the horticulture world, but never really took the time to find out just why. So when I got the opportunity to review Chlorophyll in His Veins, I enthusiastically agreed.

Meet Kylee Baumle, Horticulture’s  new Book Review Editor!

Garden Lover’s Puzzle & Quiz Book

by The Puzzle Society™
202 pages
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009
List Price: $9.99

Puzzles are fun.  Gardening is fun. Puzzles about gardening are really fun!  I’ve only …

Bloom’s Best Perennials and Grasses
by Adrian Bloom
208 pages
Timber Press, April 2010
List price: $34.95
No doubt you’ve heard of Blooms of Bressingham® plants, and perhaps you have a few of them growing in your garden.  …

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Compost
By Chris McGlaughlin
208 pages
Alpha, May 2010
List Price: $14.95
This book could have been named “Everything You Wanted to Know About Compost But Were Afraid to Ask.” To some, compost …

Ken Druse, author of Planthropology, declares that "plants get no respect", but that recognizing them as individual beings brings them to life…and proves it!

Amid all the chaos in The House Plant Expert, I zeroed in on FOOD PLANTS . . . I suppose this page caught my eye because of all the buzz lately about more people getting into vegetable gardening. Or was it because I’d just been to the grocery store?

BY VALERIE EASTON
The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms
by Michael Hickey and Clive King Cambridge University Press; 208 pages paperback; $29.95