Bringing nature home : how you can sustain wildlife with native plants
Summary
In Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy encourages the use of native plants in gardening. This book asks and answers questions for modern gardeners inclined to good stewardship. How can we adjust our planting palette to be both beautiful and envitonmentally useful? How much more does a local oak speci... Full description
- Restoring natives to suburbia: a call to action
- The vital new role of the suburban garden
- No place to hide
- Who cares about biodiversity?
- Why can't insects eat alien plants?
- What is native and what is not?
- The costs of using alien ornamentals
- Creating balanced communities
- Gardening for insect diversity
- Blending in with the neighbors
- Making it happen
- What should I plant?
- What does bird food look like?
- Answers to tough questions.