Botany Book Club
The Botany Book Club is an awesome collaboration between The Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden & Raccoon River Press! Check out the monthly selections below!
We meet on Mondays in the Garden at 5:30pm!
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Want to source your book club books locally? Use code BOTANY at checkout to save 15% on our book club picks!
January - Braiding Sweetgrass - 30 Jan
February - Orchid Fever - 27 Feb
March - Lessons from Plants - 27 March
April - Bringing Nature Home - 24 April
May - The Botanist's Daughter - 05 June PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE DUE TO MEMORIAL DAY!
June - Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World - 26 June
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Kimmerer, Robin WallOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $35.00Original price$17.99 - $35.00$17.99 - $35.00Current price $17.99| /5.0 / 5.0
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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, EricOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price$16.00$16.00 - $16.00Current price $16.00| /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 LOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price$22.95$22.95 - $22.95Current price $22.95| /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, RickOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price$19.95$19.95 - $19.95Current price $19.95| /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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The Botanist's Daughter
Nunn, KayteOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-sa...
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Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World
Alexander, WilliamOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price$27.00$27.00 - $27.00Current price $27.00| /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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