The Daily Telegraph Wildlife Gardening

Author: Charlie Ryrie
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9781844034789
Category : Gardening to attract wildlife
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Many gardeners today would like to create more wildlife-friendly gardens, but may feel restricted by their situation, or put off by assuming that they will have to make huge changes to an established plot. This inspirational and practical book will scotch any myths about wildlife gardening, and encourage everyone, wherever they garden, to invite wildlife to share their outdoor spaces. There are practical ideas for gardens of all sizes and in varied situations, with a special chapter on wildlife gardening in towns. The smallest shady garden can support a range of wildlife and even a window-box or hanging basket in an urban apartment block can make a difference, as long as you provide extra food in winter, and select plants that sustain insects and animals. From the best sites for ponds to the right plants to feed various fauna, this book will ensure both you and the wildlife enjoy your garden as fully as possible.

Wildlife Gardening

Author: Kate Bradbury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472956079
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
An easy-to-follow gardening guide to help you encourage different types of wildlife into your garden. If you want to attract more bees, birds, frogs and hedgehogs into your garden, look no further than Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything. Kate Bradbury offers tips on feeding your neighbourhood wildlife and explains how you can create the perfect habitats for species you'd like to welcome into your garden. With handy charts tailored to the needs of every size and style of garden, this easy-to-use book also includes practical projects such as making bee hotels or creating wildlife ponds, compost corners and wildflower meadows, as well as fact files for the UK's most common garden species. Everyone can garden with wildlife in mind, and in this practical new guide, Kate has teamed up with the Wildlife Trusts and the RHS to help you discover how you can make your garden, balcony, doorstep or patio a haven for garden wildlife.

Guide to Garden Wildlife (2nd edition)

Author: Richard Lewington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472964829
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
'The definitive go-to wildlife guide for all 16 million British gardens.' – Mike Dilger Even the smallest garden can be an important haven for wildlife, and this authoritative guide enables everyone to explore this wealth on their back doorstep. It covers all the main animal groups – including pond life – likely to be found in a garden in Great Britain and Ireland. Detailed descriptions and information on life history, behaviour and occurrence are provided for more than 500 species, as well as practical information on creating a pond for wildlife, making nestboxes and feeding birds. Richard Lewington, acknowledged as one of the finest natural history artists in Europe, has teamed up with his brother Ian, one of our most respected bird artists, to provide nearly 1,000 superbly detailed colour artworks to complement the text. Presented in an accessible, easy-to-use format, this fully updated and expanded edition covers everything from blue tits to bumblebees and hedgehogs to hawkmoths.

Brilliant and Wild

Author: L. Bellamy
Publisher: Pimpernel Press
ISBN: 9781910258637
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"From back-of-an-envelope list to flower-filled paradise - Brilliant and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year gives even the most inexperienced gardener the chance to create a beautiful and wildlife-friendly outdoor space - from nothing - in just twelve months. This highly practical book shows how satisfying and surprisingly simple growing a garden from scratch can be, by: Providing clear step-by-step instructions for making a low-maintenance garden that will flourish within months and be fully established within a year. Focusing on perennial plants that are easy to grow, loved by wildlife and look more beautiful every year. Illustrating the text with photographs showing the author making her new perennial garden in just one year"--Publisher's description

The Wild Garden; Or, Our Groves & Shrubberies Made Beautiful by the Naturalization of Hardy Exotic Plants

Author: William Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exotic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

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.

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

Author: Kate Bradbury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472943120
Category : Gardening to attract wildlife
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
'Wonderfully intense and honest - a poignant manual of how to grow hope against the odds.' Chris Packham, TV presenter and author of Fingers in the Sparkle JarFinding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space. On her own she unscrews, saws and hammers the decking away, she clears the builders' rubble and rubbish beneath it, and she digs and enriches the soil, gradually planting it up with plants she knows will attract wildlife. She erects bird boxes and bee hotels, hangs feeders and grows nectar- and pollen-rich plants, and slowly brings life back to the garden.But while she's doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave and deck their gardens locking them away, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened, and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle. Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? Sadly, events take Kate away from her garden, and she finds herself back home in Birmingham where she grew up, travelling the roads she used to race down on her bike in the eighties, thinking of the gardens and wildlife she loved, witnessing more land lost beneath paving stones. If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?

Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here

Author: Dan Eatherley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262764
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
‘The story of “invasive species” is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating’ Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands of years of arrivals and escapes, as well as defences mounted and a look to the future.

The Garden

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description

Naturalistic Planting Design

Author: Nigel Dunnett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993389269
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book offers an exciting alternative to traditional garden making. Rich in plants, sustainable and good for the environment, naturalistic gardens are also beautiful, upliftning places that resonate with the energy of the natural world - but they can be challenging to get right.