A book for anyone concerned with native plants and their future.—Country Gardens



This revised edition enriches the original by featuring color photographs, new line drawings, and an appendix that modernizes botanical terminology.—Our State



A real contribution to botanical literature.—Nature



If you want to appreciate the plants of North Carolina, you need to become acquainted with B.W. Wells' Natural Gardens.—The Carrboro Citizen



It is seldom that scientific exactness and charm of description go hand in hand, but Professor Wells has combined these happily.—Asheville Citizen



The best-known contribution by Bertram Whittier Wells to popular literature on botany and plant ecology of North Carolina. . . . Anyone with a love of North Carolina's natural history must read, and will undoubtedly want to own, this revised edition of The Natural Gardens of North Carolina.—Southeastern Biology



The Natural Gardens of North Carolina is a classic, combining good science and evocative prose with a sense of wonder and discovery. Rather than simply describing native plants, it helps you understand the challenges plants face and why they grow where they do. If you love North Carolina, you'll love this book.—Steve Bender, senior writer, Southern Living



How fortunate we are to have B. W. Wells's classic volume available once again! The combination of his clear and sometimes poetic writing on North Carolina's rich natural heritage, the new drawings by Dorothy S. Wilbur-Brooks, and Lawrence S. Earley's illuminating and updating introduction and afterword make this an extremely valuable contribution to the literature on southeastern plant communities.—Darrel Morrison, University of Georgia