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ISBN-10: 0520267818
ISBN-13: 9780520267817
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 08/08/2012
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 7.00" W, 0.70" H

The California Wildlife Habitat Garden: How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals

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Price: $29.95

Overview

This attractive, practical guide explains how to transform backyard gardens into living ecosystems that are not only enjoyable retreats for humans, but also thriving sanctuaries for wildlife. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, this book provides easy-to-follow recommendations for providing food, cover, and water for birds, bees, butterflies, and other small animals. Emphasizing individual creativity over conventional design, Bauer asks us to consider the intricate relationships between plants and wildlife and our changing role as steward, rather than manipulator, of these relationships.

In an engaging narrative that endorses simple and inexpensive methods of wildlife habitat gardening, Nancy Bauer discusses practices such as recycling plant waste on site, using permeable pathways, growing regionally appropriate plants, and avoiding chemical fertilizers and insecticides. She suggests ways of attracting pollinators through planting choices and offers ideas for building water sources and shelters for wildlife. A plant resource guide, tips for propagating plants, seasonal plants for hummingbirds, and host plants for butterflies round out The California Wildlife Habitat Garden, making it an indispensable primer for those about to embark on creating their own biologically diverse, environmentally friendly garden.

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"Well-produced, practical, and thorough, this book is a significant contribution to habitat gardening literature . . . [including] useful plant lists and appendices. . . . an outstanding model for other regionally oriented habitat gardening books in terms of level of detail and useful specifics."– "American Horticulture Society"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0520267818
ISBN-13: 9780520267817
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 08/08/2012
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 7.00" W, 0.70" H
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