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Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator Friendly Gardening makes it easy. Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If you are a beekeeper, are you looking for the ideal plants to keep your colony happy?Pollinators such as monarch butterflies and bees are under threat, and more and more gardeners want to do all they can to create a hospitable space for them. That's where Pollinator Friendly Gardening comes in. It identifies the most visible and beloved pollinators: bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as some more unlikely candidates such as ants, wasps, and beetles. It then explains the intriguing synergy between plants and pollinators. This vital information makes it a unique sourcebook to share the ways that anyone can make a yard a more friendly place for pollinators.Plant selection, hardscape choices, habitat building (both natural and manmade), and growing practices that give pollinators their best chance in the garden are all covered in detail. Plant lists organized by category, helpful tips, and expert spotlights make it a fun and easy book to read too.
I cannot imagine a more thorough or well done book on this very important subject. For those of us who have desire and space to create "habitat" gardens", it is a great gift to have such a supportive book as a reference. The lists of various types of plants for the various stages of butterfly development, such as larval, are very helpful and signal that different varieties of plants are helpful for different species and their stages.There are guest expert sections dotted through the book with a Q&A format that are very helpful and widen the knowledge base beyond just one author.But this isn't just a book about plants and insects. It is a call to action to help our eco-system, which is under tremendous stress, support the creatures we actually need to stay alive. The resources listed are very helpful such as organizations to learn more, for example, about hummingbirds, or bees. Although it is beyond me why more people and industries are not taking more overt action to stop the collapse of the bee population, because without pollinators our food supply is threatened, there is a good section covering this.It will take little effort on the part of gardeners to consciously include pollinator plants in the next round of planting. Use this book as a terrific guide and welcome the pollinators to your yard.
