RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife

Author: Peter Holden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472930851
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 582

Book Description
The updated edition of the popular RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife. This friendly handbook is full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden, and encouraging creatures to stick around, as well as expert tips on green gardening, seasonal planting and garden predators. Colour photographs illustrate hundreds of mammals, birds, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, flowers, trees, shrubs and fungi, while the comprehensive text explains everything you need to cultivate a haven for nature. The new edition includes additional species as well as fully updated text describing the diverse wildlife that can be found in British gardens. Finally, a DIY chapter is packed with projects for your garden, from building bat boxes to digging your own pond.

RSPB Gardening for Wildlife

Author: Adrian Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472938577
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A fully updated and expanded edition of the award-winning book that explodes the myth that wildlife gardens have to be wild.

RSPB Gardening for Wildlife

Author: Adrian Thomas
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781408122303
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of the Garden Media Guild New Talent Award 2010. Gardening for wildlife is hugely enjoyable. There is something uplifting about having butterflies in your flowerbeds, frogs in your water feature and birds in your bushes - and knowing that they're here because of you. But if you want a 'nice' garden too, don't worry! This new book busts the myths that wildlife gardens have to be 'wild', or that you can only garden for wildlife in a 'wildlife garden'. You can easily fit in wildlife gardening alongside everything else you want from your garden. The secret is understanding the 'home needs' of your guests. Tap into their needs and you can create a five-star hotel for birds, bees, butterflies and more. As well as looking at a host of different species, there are sections to help you create entire habitats, such as woodland and meadow gardens, and a catalogue of over 300 of the very best garden flowers, shrubs and trees for wildlife. So no matter how large or small your garden, whether it is formal or a family football pitch, there are all sorts of things you can do. If you love wildlife and want to encourage more, this inspirational book will help you sow the seeds and reap the rewards.

RSPB Handbook of British Birds

Author: Peter Holden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Wildlife
ISBN: 1472980263
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
The bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds is the most comprehensive reference for birdwatchers of all levels of interest and experience. Now in its fifth edition, it remains the most accessible field guide to more than 300 bird species likely to be encountered in Britain and Ireland. Alongside artworks depicting all common plumages, the detailed text describes each bird's behaviour, habitat, voice, breeding biology, longevity and seasonal movements, as well as other useful information. The guide also includes UK population trends and up-to-date distribution maps. Completely revised and updated, this fifth edition also features new artwork and comparison spreads, additional rarities, the most recent taxonomic order, as well as each species' conservation status, a summary of the threats UK species are currently facing and details of what conservationists are doing to help.

RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife

Author: Peter Holden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472955005
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258

No Nettles Required

Author: Ken Thompson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446437809
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
In 2003 a MORI poll for the Royal Horticultural Society revealed that an extraordinary number of us are interested in attracting wildlife into our gardens. It also indicated, however, that many of us have no idea how to go about it. Information is sparse, and public opinion seems to suggest that gardens that are plentiful in wildlife are unattractive, expensive to upkeep and hard work to maintain. But this couldn't be further from the truth. In this illuminating book, Ken Thompson explains that encouraging wildlife is actually entirely compatible with ordinary gardening, costs next to nothing and is almost completely effortless. Packed with helpful hints and tips, the book shows us how easy it is to fill our gardens with everything from foxes, frogs and mice to butterflies, ladybirds and literally thousands of fascinating creepy-crawlies. Why should we? Because we'll be promoting the biodiversity of the UK, we'll be reconnecting with nature, getting more from our gardens, and we'll be doing our plants a favour.

The Wildlife Pond Book

Author: Jules Howard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472958314
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door. Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they are for everyone. In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature. As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net. With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years. So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature.

How to Make a Wildlife Garden

Author: Chris Baines
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711217119
Category : Gardening to attract wildlife
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this revised and updated version of the classic How to Make a Wildlife Garden, professional environmentalist Chris Baines shows how you can transform your garden into a rich wildlife haven.

RSPB First Book of the Seashore

Author: Derek Niemann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408165694
Category : Seashore animals
Languages : en
Pages : 25

Book Description
Beautifully illustrated first spotter's guides for 4-7 year-olds.

My First Book of Garden Birds

Author: Mike Unwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0713676787
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
A picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird's identity. The reader then turns the page to find out more.