How to create a wildlife garden : encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and bugs into your outside space / Christine and Mick Lavelle.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wigston : Lorenz Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 256 pages : illustrations (colour), maps ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780754835202
- 0754835200
- Wildlife garden : encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and bugs into your outside space
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 635.967 L399 | Available | 33111010991251 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This inspiring and accessible hands-on book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. This new updated edition of the award-winning book (Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year) gives easy-to-follow instructions backed up with advice on planning and design, showing how we can share our outdoor space with nature. The authors show how to encourage beneficial garden species and discourage the more problematic ones. With its wealth of practical advice and detailed photography, this is the ideal sourcebook for gardeners and wildlife enthusiasts.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Wildlife in your garden -- Planning and designing a wildlife garden -- Major habitat types -- Creating new habitats -- Working in your wildlife garden -- Boosting your habitats -- Directory of garden wildlife -- Directory of plants.
A guide to the best plants to grow where, garden plans to suit your location, and natural gardening techniques for wildlife-friendly habitats.
Lavelle shows how gardeners and wildlife can share the same space without conflict-- and to mutual benefit. The vast majority of garden creatures will not damage plants or be a nuisance, and those that can often make a meal for larger creatures. In showing readers the best plants to grow where, and encouraging natural gardening techniques for wildlife-friendly habitats, Lavelle sets you on your first step in becoming a wildlife gardener. -- adapted from pages 6 and 9.