Nominees for the 2010 Annual Award were:

An Oak Spring Herbaria; Herbs and herbals from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Tony Willis (Oak Spring Garden Library, 2009)

Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington's Chinese Garden
T. June Li, editor (Huntington Library, 2008)

Art and Nature: Three Centuries of Natural History Art from Around the World
Judith Magee (Greystone Books, an imprint of D&M Publishers Inc., 2009)

Art of Plant Evolution
W. John Kress and Shirley Sherwood (Kew Publishing, 2009)

Blue Heaven: Encounters with the Blue Poppy
Bill Terry (Touchwood Editions, 2009)

Botanica Magnifica: Portraits of the World's Most Extraordinary Flowers and Plants
Photographer: Jonathan Singer; Authors: John Kress and Marc Hachadourian (Abbeville Press, 2009)

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Andrea Wulf (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)

Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois & Surrounding States: A Field to Kitchen Guide.
Joe McFarland & Gregory M Mueller (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

Explorer's Garden: Shrubs and Vines
Daniel J. Hinkley (Timber Press, 2009)

Flower hunters
Mary and John Gribbin (Oxford University Press, 2009)

From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds
Christopher Grampp (Center for American Places, Columbia College, Chicago, 2008)

Fruits of victory the Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War
Elaine F. Weiss (Potomac Books, 2008)

The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
Jane S. Smith (Penguin Press, 2009)

Gardening the Earth - Gateways to a Sustainable Future
S. Blackmore (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2009)

The Global Migrations of Ornamental Plants: How the World Got into Your Garden
Judith M. Taylor (Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2009)

Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants
Peter Bernhardt (Rutgers University Press, 2008)

How Trees Die: The Past, Present, and Future of Our Forests
Jeff Gillman (Westholme Publishing, 2009)

Raffles' Ark Redrawn
H. J. Noltie (British Library / Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2009)

Royal Flowers of the Netherlands
Dennis A-Tjak (Lannoo Publishers, 2009)

Unbounded Practice : Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century
Thaisa Way (University of Virginia Press, 2009)

The Weeping Goldsmith: Discoveries in the Secret Land of Myanmar
W. John Kress (Abbeville Press, 2009)

What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?): A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies
David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth (Timber Press, )

Wilson's China: a century on
By Tony Kirkham and Mark Flanagan (Kew Publishing, 2009)

Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference
James E. Eckenwalder (Timber Press, 2009)

Green roofs in sustainable landscape design
Steven L. Cantor (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008)

History of Natural History, 2^nd ed.
Gavin Bridson (The Linnean Society of London, 2008)

Ireland's Wild Orchids: a field guide
Brendan Sayers & Susan Sex (The Authors, 2008)

Lives of the Conifers
Graham R. Powell (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)

Manual of Leaf Architecture
Beth Ellis; Douglas C. Daly; Leo J. Hickey; Kirk R. Johnson John D. Mitchell; Peter Wilf; Scott L. Wing (Cornell University Press, 2009)

Mind-altering and poisonous plants of the world
Michael Win and Ben-Erik van Wyk (Timber Press)

New Trees: recent introductions to cultivation
John Grimshaw and Ross Bayton; with illustr. by Hazel Wilks (Kew Publishing, in association with the International Dendrology Society, 2010)

Parasitic Flowering Plants
Henning S. Heide-Jorgensen (Brill, 2008)

Pocket Guide to Rhododendron Species
J.F.J. McQuire and M.L.A. Robinson (Kew Publishing, 2009)

Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics
Nancy C. Garwood; Margaret Tebbs (Ill.); Robin B. Foster (Foreword) (Cornell University Press, 2009)

Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae.
Vicki A. Funk et al. (International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2009)

Vegetative Key to the British Flora
John Poland and Eric Clement (published by John Poland, distributed by NHBS, 2009)