Richard Cady’s book is a beautifully photographed and well-written survey of Northern New Mexico’s wildflowers. Part art book and part field guide, BOUQUET belongs on every New Mexico bookshelf.

~ Mark H. Cross, author of the Encyclopedia of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico

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“This little nosegay of a book is a botanical field guide for the rest of us — non-botanists who often wonder what that gorgeous flower is in our neighbor’s yard or what that spray of yellow is growing along the arroyos on our daily walk. Anyone living in Northern New Mexico will find plants in here — native, invasive, growing wild or in gardens — that they see on a regular basis. Someone gave author Richard Cady an iPhone and the result is remarkable. Cady has a real eye for the plants of Northern New Mexico and this is a useful book for anyone wanting to put some names to the botanical bounty around them.”

~ Kristen Davenport, farmer and plant enthusiast

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“I have read, I think, dozens of wildflower books, and your book stands out from the rest of them. The photographs are beautiful, and I think you have proven that a [cell phone] camera can compete with the best of hand-held cameras. Your photographs are so much better than those in many wildflower books. The book engages the reader with lively dialogue, and your research on the people who have their names as species designations is interesting and adds a special touch to the book. I think it will be the wildflower book of choice for a long time to come.”

~ Larry Deaven, former director of the Center for Human Genome Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and caretaker of 200 penstemon species in the public garden he created at the Los Alamos Nature Center

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