Annual Literature Award >> Winners and Nominees >> 2021 Nominees
Nominees for the 2021 Annual Literature Award are:
[Current list]
PLEASE NOTE: The CBHL’s 53rd Annual Meeting will be a virtual meeting. Winner(s) for the Annual Literature Award will be announced during a special virtual session May 6, 2021, 6:00 to 7:30 pm ET
As long as grass grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock
by Dina Gilio-Whitaker. Beacon Press, 2019.
ISBN| 9780807028360
Beth Chatto: A life with plants
by Catherine Horwood. Pimpernel Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781910258828
Blooming flowers: a seasonal history of plants and people
by Kasia Boddy. Yale University Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9780300243338
Botanical art techniques: A comprehensive guide: Watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, vellum, pen and ink, egg tempera, oils, printmaking, and more
by American Society of Botanical Artists, ed. by Carol Woodin and Robin A. Jess. Timber Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9781604697902
The botanical city: A busy person’s guide to the wondrous plants you can find, eat and grow in the city
by Hélèna Dove and Harry Adès. Hoxton Mini Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9781910566794
A curious garden of herbs: Culinary, medicinal, cordial, and amusing; of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier
by Kay K. Moss and Suzanne S. Simmons. The University of Georgia Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9780820357829
The Earth in her hands: 75 extraordinary women
by Jennifer Jewell. Timber Press, 2020.
ISBN |9781604699029
Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures
by Merlin Sheldrake. Random House, 2020.
ISBN| 9780525510314
Feasting wild: In search last untamed food
by Gina Rae La Cerva. Greystone Books, 2020.
ISBN| 9781771645331
Field guide to the flora of the San Gabriel Mountains
by Orlando Mistretta. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 2020. (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Occasional Publications)
ISBN| 9780960580859
Finding solace in the soil: an archaeology of gardens and gardeners at Amache
by Bonnie J. Clark. University Press of Colorado, 2020.
ISBN| 9781646420926
Flower: Exploring the World of Bloom.
Phaidon, 2020.
ISBN| 9781838660857
The garden of vegan: How plants can save the animals, the planet and our health
by Cleve West. Pimpernel Press, 2020
ISBN| 9781910258477
Gardening with drought-friendly plants
by Tony Hall. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2020.
ISBN| 9781842467091
Glass flowers: Marvels of Art and Science
by Jennifer Brown, Scott E. Fulton and Donald H. Pfister;(photogr. by) Natalja Kent. Scala Arts Publishers, (in association with) Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, 2020.
ISBN| 9781785512247
Grasses, sedges, rushes: An identification guide
by Lauren Brown and Ted Elliman. Yale University Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9780300236774
Growing weed in the garden: A no-fuss, seed-to-stash guide to outdoor cannabis cultivation
by Johanna Silver. Abrams, 2020.
ISBN| 9781419742767
Herbarium: The quest to preserve & classify the world’s plants
by Barbara Thiers. Timber Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9781604699302
Iwigara: American Indian ethnobotanical traditions and science
by Enrique Salmon. Timber Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9781604698800
Kengo Kuma: Portland Japanese Garden
by Botond Bognar and Balazs Bognar. Rizzoli Electa, 2019.
ISBN| 9780847864669
Lost feast: culinary extinction
by Lenore Newman. ECW Press, 2019.
ISBN|9781770414358
A map into the world
by Kao Kalia Yang, (ill. by) Seo Kim. Carolrhoda Books, 2019.
ISBN | 9781541538368
My forest is green
by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron. Kids Can Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781771389303
Palace of palms: tropical dreams and the making of Kew
by Kate Teltscher. Picador, 2020.
ISBN| 9781529004854
The planter of modern life: Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution
by Stephen Heyman. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
ISBN| 9781324001898
Plants go to war: A botanical history of World War II
by Judith Sumner. McFarland and Company, 2019.
ISBN| 9781476676128
Pollination: The enduring relations between plant and pollinator
by Timothy Walker. Princeton University Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9780691203751
Public gardens and livable cities: partnerships connecting people, plants, and place
by Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough and Sharon A. Lee. Cornell University Press, 2020.
ISBN| 9781501702594
Rare plants: 40 of the rarest and endangered
by Ed Ikin. Welbeck in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2020.
ISBN | 9780233006239
Remarkable Trees
by Christina Harrison. Thames & Hudson; (in association with the) Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew, 2019.
ISBN| 9780500021927
Spirited Stone: lessons from Kubota’s Garden
by Gemina Garland-Lewis. Chin Music Press, 2019.
ISBN| 9781634059756
The Wardian Case: how a simple box moved plants and changed the world
by Luke Keogh. University of Chicago Press & Kew Publishing, 2020.
ISBN| 9781842467190
The well-gardened mind: The restorative power of nature
by Sue Stuart-Smith. Scribner, 2020.
ISBN| 9781476794464
Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast
by Laura Mansberg Cotterman, Damon Edward Waitt and Alan S. Weakley. Timber Press, 2019.
ISBN| 9781604697605
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