Born in the Spring

Roberts combines outstanding artistic talent, a love of wildflowers, and an engaging writing style to produce a uniquely charming volume on spring wildflowers. It attracts the eye, and it provides an engrossing series of vignettes of ninety-one species, guaranteed to lift the spirits when the snow is deepest and the thermometer lowest. ~Choice

June Carver Roberts’s book will instill a love for wildflowers and other natural phenomena in even the most stubborn minds. . . . Born in the Spring should be quite helpful in preventing today’s common wildflowers from being among tomorrow’s endangered species. ~Northwest Ohio Quarterly

June Carver Roberts has a special talent for capturing with accuracy and beauty the salient characteristics of plants. . . . Each plate is in a full-page format, opposite of which is descriptive text with detailed, well-written identification features, notes on the plants’ natural histories and origins, and their blooming periods. ~Foster's Botanical and Herb Reviews