Author: Rozella Florence Linden Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781500675981 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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Graceful flowers and butterflies in a variety of styles and techniques including Celtic, Hanging Cluny, Beaded Double Core Reverse Ring, and Magic Tatting that may be tatted by needle and shuttle tatters with some finger tatting. Skill level: beginner to advanced tatters.
Author: Alcinda C. Lewis Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden ISBN: 9780945352884 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
This book offers butterfly biology for gardeners, practical tips ondesigning a butterfly garden -- whether you're starting from scratch or adding to an existing garden. Also contains an encyclopedia of the most commonly found butterflies and butterfly plants including beautiful full-color illustrations.
Author: Mathew Tekulsky Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1632209004 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, it’s not hard to see why it’s sweeping the nation and growing in popularity. Mathew Tekulsky’s The Butterfly Garden is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. You’ll learn about: • The butterfly life cycle, habitats, and behaviors • Choosing and obtaining food and nectar sources • Designing your garden • Options for country, suburban, and city gardens • Fifty common garden butterflies and the plants they like • Butterfly observation and conservation This guide will teach you everything you need to get started—whether you’re a suburban resident, the owner of a small urban garden, an apartment dweller, or a keeper of a country estate, you can enjoy frequent butterfly visits to your garden or window box. The key, Tekulsky believes, is learning some basic knowledge of butterfly characteristics and behavior and knowing how to meet the needs of the butterfly species most common in your neighborhood. Not only is butterfly gardening one of the easiest ways to enjoy these enchanting creatures, but it’s also a wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for generations to come. Learn how to create your own beautiful butterfly garden today!
Author: Jane Hurwitz Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691170347 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
An indispensable and lavishly illustrated guide to creating a garden that attracts and sustains butterflies Butterfly gardening creates habitats that support butterflies, connecting us with some of the most beautiful creatures in the natural world and bringing new levels of excitement and joy to gardening. In this engaging and accessible guide, lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred color photographs and maps, accomplished butterfly gardener Jane Hurwitz presents essential information on how to choose and cultivate plants that will attract a range of butterflies to your garden and help sustain all the stages of their life cycles. An indispensable resource for aspiring and experienced butterfly gardeners alike, Butterfly Gardening is the most gardener-friendly source on the subject, covering all the practical details needed to create a vibrant garden habitat that fosters butterflies. It tells you which plants support which butterflies, depending on where you live; it describes what different butterflies require in the garden over the course of their lives; and it shows you how to become a butterfly watcher as well as a butterfly gardener. While predominantly recommending regionally native plants, the book includes information on non-native plants. It also features informative interviews with experienced butterfly gardeners from across the United States. These gardeners share a wealth of information on plants and practices to draw butterflies to all kinds of gardens--from small suburban gardens to community plots and larger expanses. Whether you are a gardener who wants to see more butterflies in your garden, a butterfly enthusiast who wants to bring that passion to the garden, or someone who simply wants to make their garden or yard friendlier to Monarchs or other butterflies, this is a must-have guide. An essential guide for aspiring and experienced butterfly gardeners Encourages readers to rethink gardening choices to support butterflies and other pollinators in their gardens and communities Introduces gardeners to butterfly watching Includes regional lists of plant species that are time-proven to help sustain butterflies and their caterpillars Features informative interviews with expert butterfly gardeners from across the United States
Author: Mathew Tekulsky Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510771549 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 237
Book Description
Author Mathew Tekulsky wrote the first book on butterfly gardening for North America, nearly 40 years ago! Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, it’s not hard to see why it’s sweeping the nation and growing in popularity. How to Create a Butterfly Garden is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. You’ll learn about: The butterfly life cycle, habitats, and behaviors Choosing and obtaining food and nectar sources Designing your garden Options for country, suburban, and city gardens Fifty common garden butterflies and the plants they like Butterfly observation and conservation This guide will teach you everything you need to get started—whether you’re a suburban resident, the owner of a small urban garden, an apartment dweller, or a keeper of a country estate, you can enjoy frequent butterfly visits to your garden or window box. The key, Tekulsky believes, is learning some basic knowledge of butterfly characteristics and behavior and knowing how to meet the needs of the butterfly species most common in your neighborhood. Not only is butterfly gardening one of the easiest ways to enjoy these enchanting creatures, but it’s also a wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for generations to come. Learn how to create your own beautiful butterfly garden today!
Author: Claire Hagen Dole Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden ISBN: 9781889538587 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
An illustrated handbook of tips for creating a habitat favorable to all stages of a butterfly's life. Includes information on butterfly and caterpillar plants for every region.
Author: Laura M Durand Elkins Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1973660199 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 61
Book Description
It’s time to put on your sneakers and grab your garden gloves, because we are going on a special journey as we build a basic butterfly garden designed to attract the monarch butterfly as well as other butterfly species. I will also take you on an exciting step-by-step walk through raising monarch butterflies in your home: • The gathering of monarch eggs • Understanding the growth stages of the monarch caterpillar and learning how to care for them • Predators of monarch butterflies • The milkweed plant and how valuable it is to the monarch butterfly • The amazing process of the monarch caterpillar going into chrysalis • Witnessing the miracle of the beautiful monarch as it emerges from chrysalis
Author: Marcus Schneck Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671892460 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
Practical and beautiful, this book shows how to attract butterflies to a back yard garden--and turn it into a fluttering paradise. Marcus Schneck explains the life cycles, migration patterns, and mating behavior of these creatures, and offers invaluable information on everything from pesticide-free garden maintenance to the use of feeders.
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