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1) My backyard jungle: the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it

Author

Barilla, James

2) Backyard water gardens: how to build, plant & maintain ponds, streams & fountains

Author

Fowler, Veronica Lorson

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A backyard water feature is a feast for your senses! It surrounds you with sights, sounds, colors, and a constant source of movement that will never fail to inspire you. Both soothing and invigorating, water features come in every size, from simple bubblers for patio-sized gardens to more elaborate streams and waterfalls. You can create a water garden without spending a fourtune or all summer doing it and maintain it yourself. Water gardens offer...

3) The living landscape: designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden

Author

Darke, Rick

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape - one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. The Living Landscape is your roadmap to a richer,...

4) Grow more with less

Author

Simeone, Vincent A

5) The humane gardener: nurturing a backyard habitat for wildlife

Author

Lawson, Nancy

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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native...

6) The well-tended perennial garden: the essential guide to planting and pruning techniques : a bestselling classic, completely revised and expanded

Author

DiSabato-Aust, Tracy

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Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has helped home gardeners successfully plan, plant, and tend their gardens. Now Tracy Di-Sabato-Aust&#x;s trusty advice and reassuring tone are back and better than ever in this completely revised new edition. Novice and experienced gardeners alike will benefit from Tracy&#x;s thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care&#x;included deadheading,...

7) Attracting birds and butterflies: how to plant a backyard habitat to attract winged wildlife

Author

Ellis, Barbara W

Series

Home grown gardening guides

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A quick-reference guide to attracting birds and butterflies for gardeners with little experience and time. In the eye of a bird or butterfly, the typical suburban landscape resembles an unfriendly desert. Closely mowed lawns, tightly clipped shrubs, raked-up borders, and deadheaded flowers mean no place to nest, no food to eat, and nowhere to hide. To the humans who live there, this means no bird songs, no colorful butterflies, no dazzling hummingbirds,...

8) Handmade bird, bee, and bat houses: 25 beautiful homes, feeders, and more to attract wildlife into your garden

Author

McKee-Orsini, Michele

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Handmade Bird, Bee, and Bat Houses features homes to build for everything from bees to bats, and bluebirds to butterflies. Each house is beautifully designed, with colorful details, but is also perfectly adapted for its intended inhabitants. There are birdhouses you can hang up or place on stands, a bee house you can "plant" in your flowerbed, and there's even a home for a toad. There are also feeders for birds and butterflies, and homes for ladybugs....

9) Climate-wise landscaping: practical actions for a sustainable future

Author

Reed, Sue

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Practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home. Topics include: Working actively to shrink our carbon footprint through mindful landscaping and gardening; creating cleaner air and water; increasing physical comfort during hotter seasons; supporting birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife.

10) Planting for honeybees: the grower's guide to creating a buzz

Author

Lewis, Sarah Wyndham

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Our gardens would be unrecognizable without the gentle buzz of the humble honeybee. Yet in recent years bee populations have suffered from th loss of green spaces and need our help. Planting for Honeybees is a charmingly illustrated, practical guide on how to help attract these delightful pollinators - whether you only have a city window ledge or a whole country garden. With advice on the blooms to grow, and when and where to plant them, this book...

11) Native plants for New England gardens

Author

Jaffe, Dan

12) Wild about weeds: garden design with rebel plants

Author

Wallington, Jack

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"Not all weeds are ugly uncontrollable brutes. Yes, they can be difficult and intimidating, but by learning how to grow weeds in unexpected ways you will become a better gardener with a more interesting garden. This book profiles over 50 weeds and shows you surprising ways to grow them, no matter what your garden type: from borders to boxes, sunny to shady, poor soil to rich, tropical to formal, Japanese-style to prairies. With interviews, tips and...

13) Pollinator victory garden: win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening : how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators

Author

Eierman, Kim

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"The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment-the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these beneficial animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet.Pollinators...