[APWG] Who educates library journal reviewers about alien plants?
oldefarm at windstream.net
oldefarm at windstream.net
Fri Dec 5 08:20:56 CST 2008
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
---- steveyoung at aol.com wrote:
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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
> most NE libraries.
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> 0Alien Plant Working Groups have a
> 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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> Grace Lilly
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> Dear Grace -
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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
> article in Library Journal entitled "Regional Gardening North by
> Northeast" and was one of their starred reviews, and it stated that
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> ases for most NE libraries." On that
> 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
> species list and paste it in the front of the book. I believe we did that for
> another book a couple of years ago.
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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
> Extension and also their The Best Plants for
> 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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