Reading @ the Garden Center - What we’ll be reading in 2025

The dates are selected and the room is reserved. As usual, we’ll be meeting on the first

Monday of the month at 4:00 pm. We do continue to have hybrid meetings. Contact Margaret

at botanicalbooksabq@gmail.com for details and to receive monthly reminders of the

discussions.

January 6: The Tree (aka The Secret Life of Trees) parts I & II, Colin Tudge

February 3: The Tree (aka The Secret Life of Trees) parts III & IV, Colin Tudge

March 3: The Botanist’s Daughter, Kayte Nunn

April 7: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants, Stefano Mancuso

May 5: Thus Spoke the Plant, Monica Gagliano

June 2: movie and potluck – Rosemary and Thyme (episodes 5-6)

July 7: The Garden Against Time, Olivia Laing

August 4: My Garden, Jamaica Kincaid

September 8: The Brother Gardeners, Andrea Wulf

October 6: The Plant Hunter, T.L. Mogford

November 3: House Plants, Mike Maunder

December 8: movie and potluck – The Little Shop of Horrors

Summaries of some discussions as well as the current schedule may be found at

margaretmenache.com under Botanical Book Club.

Notice: Date Change (Reading@theGardenCenter)

Please note that the September hybrid discussion of Vicky Ramakka's The Pearl Plot will be on Monday 16 September at 4 pm at the Garden Center.

Reading @ the Garden Center, a Botanical Book Club

Since our first meeting in June

2019, this Council-approved

activity has filled a need for

those at the intersection of

gardening and reading.

Our motto is:

Gardening is good, more gardening is better, reading is best.

We meet on the first Monday of

the month (with a couple

exceptions) at 4:00 pm for

discussion and snacks. Our

meetings are generally hybrid,

with the in-person portion at the

Garden Center. Movie nights

(twice annually) are in-person

only.

Our meetings are free and open to the public.

Email us at: BotanicalBooksABQ@gmail.com to be put on our email list for regular updates and

reminders of upcoming discussions.

2023 Book Selections

January 9: The Sixteen Trees of the Somme, Lars Mytting

February 6: The Long, Long Life of Trees, Fiona Stafford

March 6: Elderflora, Jared Farmer

April 3: The Arbornaut, Meg Lowman

May 1: Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World, William Alexander

June 5: Plants and Crime, Alan Graham

July 10: movie and potluck - Rosemary and Thyme

August 7: Damsons - An ancient fruit in the modern kitchen, Sarah Conrad Gothie

September 11: The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak

October 2: The Book of Difficult Fruit, Kate Lebo

November 6: TBD

December 4: movie and potluck - TBD

For more information, email us at: BotanicalBooksABQ@gmail.com.