Nominees for the 2007 Annual Award are:

Technical Interest

Botanicus Digital Library,
Doug Holland, Chris Freeland, et al., comps. (Missouri Botanical Garden) 2006

Botany illlustrated: Introduction to plants, major groups, flowering plant families (2nd ed.),
Janice Glimn-Lacy and Peter B. Kaufman (Springer) 2005

DNA and Tissue Banking for Biodiversity and Conservation,
Vincent Savolainen, Martyn P. Powell, Kate Davis, Gail Reeves and Angélique Corthals (Kew Publishing in association with IUCN) 2006

Field Guide to the Palms of Madagascar,
John Dransfield, Henk Beentje, Adam Britt, Tianjanahary Ranarivelo and Jeremie Razafitsalama (Kew Publishing) 2006

Field Guide to the Palms of New Guinea,
William Baker and John Dransfield (Kew Publishing) 2006

The most beautiful wild flowers of Turkey,
Erdogan Tekan (Turkiye Is Bankasi, Istanbul) 2005

Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile,
Martin F. Gardner et al. (RBG Edinburgh / Universidad Austral de Chile) 2006

A Tropical Garden Flora: Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and Other Tropical Places,
George W. Staples and Derral R. Herbst (Bishop Museum Press) 2005

Woody Plants of Western African Forests: A Guide to the Forest Trees, Shrubs and Lianes from Senegeal to Ghana,
William Hawthorne and Carel Jongkind (Kew Publishing) 2006



General Interest

Botanical Riches-Stories of Botanical Exploration,
Richard Aitken (Lund Humphries) 2006

California Native Plants for the Garden,
Carol Bornstein, Dave Fross & Bart O'Brien (Cachuma Press) 2005

Care & Maintenance of Southern California Native Plant Gardens
Bart O'Brien, Betsey Landis, and Ellen Mackey (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, California Native Plant Society, and Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants) 2006

City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century,
Henry W. Lawrence (University of Virginia Press) 2006

Colonizing Nature,
Beth Fowkes Tobin (The University of Pennsylvania Press) 2005

Defiant gardens : making gardens in wartime,
Kenneth I. Helphand (Trinity University Press) 2006

Fruit and nuts: a comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses, and health benefits of over 300 food-producing plants,
Susanna Lyte (Timber Press) 2006

Gardening with altitude: Cultivating a new Western style,
Scott Dressel-Martin (Denver Botanic Gardens) 2006

Growing Hardy Orchids,
John Tullock (Timber Press) 2006

Pitcher Plants of the Americas
Stewart McPherson (McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company) 2006

Plant
Janet Marinelli, ed. (DK Publishing) 2005

Plants that heal, thrill, and kill
Wee Yeow Chin (SNP Reference) 2005

Practical Science for Gardeners,
Mary Pratt (Timber Press) 2006

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe,
Brian W. Ogilvie (The University of Chicago Press) 2006

Seeds: Time capsules of life,
Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy (Papadakis Publisher) 2006

Tales of the Rose Tree, Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World,
Jane Brown (David R. Godine, Publisher) 2006

A Tour of the Flowering Plants Based on the Classification System of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group,
Priscilla Spears (Missouri Botanical Garden Press) 2006

The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live and Why They Matter,
Colin Tudge (Crown) 2006