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Botany Book Club

What is better than books and botany? Each month, read a book with The Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden! Check out the monthly selections below & remember to read local, shop local, & support local! REGISTER HEREP.s. you can still find previous year's selections too!

  • January - The Serviceberry - 27 Jan
  • February - This Poison Heart - 24 Feb
  • March - The Overstory - 31 Mar
  • April - Devotions - 28 Apr
  • May - Dispersals - 19 May
  • June - Flowers and Foul Play - 30 Jun
  • July - The Garden of Evening Mists - 28 Jul
  • August - Soil & Spirit - 25 Aug
  • September - What We Sow - 29 Sep
  • October - Weyward - 27 Oct
  • November - Semoisis - 17 Nov
  • December - You Are Here - 29 Dec

The Serviceberry

Kimmerer, Robin Wall
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Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision fo...

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Dispersals

Lee, Jessica J.
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On Plants, Borders, and Belonging A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore ...

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Soil and Spirit

Chaskey, Scott
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Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to th...

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What We Sow

Jewell, Jennifer
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On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds An insightful, personal, and timely exploration into the wonderful world of seeds. ...

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Brave the Wild River

Sevigny, Melissa L.
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Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography - Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/Biography - A Booklis...

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The Botany of Desire

Pollan, Michael
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A Plant's-Eye View of the World The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked ...

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Gardening Can Be Murder

McDowell, Marta
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How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising in...

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Braiding Sweetgrass

Kimmerer, Robin Wall
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Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature ...

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Orchid Fever

Hansen, Eric
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A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable ...

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Lessons from Plants

Montgomery, Beronda L
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An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain th...

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Bringing Nature Home

Tallamy, Douglas W ; Darke, Rick
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How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants "A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animal...

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Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World

Alexander, William
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New York Times bestselling author William Alexander provides "an entertaining, broad-ranging history of the tomato" (Mark Pendergrast) in this fasc...

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