BOOKS

Selected titles by andrea wulf

These four books are an indispensable primer for students of American Gardens.

George Washington at Bartram’s Garden, 1787
by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession. Vintage Books, 2008.

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation. Knopf Doubleday, 2012.

Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens. (2012).

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. Knopf, 2015.

The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris. Penguin Random House, 2026

The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos

Also: White Pine: American History and the Tree that Made a Nation

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Selected titles by Jared Farmer:

Trees in Paradise: A California History
W. W. Norton, 2013; reprint from Heyday Books, 2017

On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Harvard University Press, 2008

Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
Basic Books, 2022

Eunice Blavascunas

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Cottonwood and the River of time

On Trees, Evolution, and Society

By Reinhard F. Stettler

4 Books by Mark Johnston, mbe

The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith

Urban Forests; A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape; by Jill Jonnes; Penguin Random House LLC 2016

The Life of a Leaf, by Stephen Vogel

Arboriculture: History and Development in North America, by Richard J. Campana