[APWG] Who educates library journal reviewers about alien plants?

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I would highly recommend Douglas Tallamy's book, 'Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens' as well!
 it is a great book and very easy to read, even for those very new to the subject.
Kathy Hanratty

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>  I would certainly recommend Douglas Tallamy's book, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. Cheers,   Steve
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> From: gg lilly <pembrokes at ne.rr.com>
> To: apwg at lists.plantconservation.org
> Sent: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:43 pm
> Subject: [APWG] Who educates library journal reviewers about alien plants?
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>           The book described below by Derek Fell was
> published in 2007 by Firefly Books. Fell has written many gardening books and
> won awards for garden design. The book, in my town’s library’s collection,
> recommends such plants as Scottish broom and oriental bittersweet. Seven of the
> suggested plants are prohibited in New
>   Hampshire. I wrote a letter to the library that
> explained how alien plants would ruin a garden and explained several of the
> poor choices that Fell had included in the book. I received the thoughtful answer
> below. I plan to take the librarian up on her kind offer to print out the NH
> Invasive Species List and paste it in the front of the book.
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>           That list will help the gardeners who take out the
> book at my library, but she mentions how this book is spreading over North America. Since the Library Journal
> starred the book in a feature article, the book has had immediate status for
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> member who talks to and educates the gardening book reviewers in journals as Booklist,
> Library Journal, and Kirkus?  Since libraries everywhere
> rely heavily on these journals, giving these reviewers knowledge would be far
> reaching. If they understood the problem, they would be less enthusiastic to endorse
> a book that praises oriental bittersweet, Norway maples, and euonymus alatus.
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>           Have any people on this listserv worked with
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>           The librarian also says that the
> library would consider a title in addition to the book Invasive
> Plants; a guide to the identification and the impacts and control of common
> North American species, by S.R. Kaufman.
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>           What book or books would you recommend?
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> Thank you for the information concerning the book The
> Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants which we have in our collection. As you know, we
> do order books primarily based on their receiving a good review in journals such
> as Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus. This particular book was in a feature
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> Northeast" and was one of their starred reviews, and it stated that
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> basis, we ordered this book, as did (at last count) 19 other N.H. libraries and
> 536 other North American libraries.
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> I checked some of the plants that are listed in the NH
> list of invasive species and I did find some of them in Fell's book. Three of
> these plants have only recently been added to NH's list, after the publication
> date of this book. Also, some of the plants on the NH list are not on other
> state lists, and he was writing for any cold place on earth, not just New England. 
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> One thing we could do is to print out the NH invasive
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> We do try to include gardening books written just for
> NH too. We have, for example, Integrated
> Landscaping: Following Nature’s Lead by the UNH Cooperative
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> New Hampshire Gardens and Landscapes. And I am ordering the book Invasive Plants; a guide to the identification and
> the impacts and control of common North American species, by S.R.
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> If you have a similar title that you would like to
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