Nominees for the 2006 Annual Award were:

Technical Interest

Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion
Ed. by Michel Conan. Contibutors: Erik de Jong, Tracy Ehrlich, Lance Neckar, Stephen West, Margherita Azzi Visentini, Magnus Olaausson, Roland Puppe, Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi (Dumbarton Oaks) 2005

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico
Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos and Richard Stephen Felger (Oxford University Press) 2004

BPH-2
Gavin D. R. Bridson (Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation)

Cyperaceae: Sedges
Robert H. Mohlenbrock (Southern Illinois University Press)

Diseases of Trees and Shrubs
Wayne Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon (Cornell University Press) 2005

Edible Forest Gardens, Volumes 1 and 2
Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier (Chelsea Green Publishing Company) 2005

Florida Ethnobotany
Daniel F. Austin (Taylor & Francis Group- CRC Press) 2004

Flowers of Crete
John Fielding and Nicholas Turland (Kew Publishing)

Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest
Wendy Cooper (Nokomis Editions)

Genus Sorbus
Hugh McAllister (Kew Publishing)

Growing Orchids from Seed
Philip Seaton and Margaret Ramsay (Kew Publishing)

Hardy Rhododendron Species
James Cullen (Timber Press/RBG Edinburgh)

Legumes of the World
ed. by Gwilym Lewis, Brian Schrire, et al. (Kew Publishing)

A Monograph of the Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys (Kew Publishing) 2004 [WINNER]

Plant Life in Kentucky
Ronald L. Jones (University Press of Kentucky) 2004


General Interest

America's Curious Botanist
Nancy E. Hoffman and John C. Van Horne, ed. (American Philosophical Society)

California Native Plants for the Garden
Carol Bornstein, Dave Foss and Bart O'Brien (Cachuma Press)

Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores
Nicholas P. Money (Oxford University Press)

Edible Forest Gardens, Vol 1 and 2
Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier (Chelsea Green Publishing)

Food Plants of the World
Ben-Erik van Wyk (Timber Press)

Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Judith Tankard (Harry N. Abrams)

Jade Garden
Peter Wharton, Brent Hine and Douglas Justice (Timber Press)

Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv (Algonquin Books)

Naming of Names
Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury Publishings) 2005 [WINNER]

Plant
Janet Marinelli, ed. (DK Publishing)

A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art
Shirley Sherwood (Ashmolean Museum Publications)

Plants from the Edge of the World
Mark Flanagan and Tony Kirkham (Timber Press)

Plants of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
Eugene N. Kozloff (Timber Press)

Teaching the Trees
Joan Maloof (University of Georgia Press) 2005

Tree: A Life Story
David Suzuki and Wayne Grady (Greystone Books)

Understanding Orchids
Willliam Cullina (Houghton Mifflin Company)