No Nettles Required
The Reassuring Truth About Wildlife Gardening
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
In 2003 a MORI poll for the Royal Horticultural Society revealed that an extraordinary number of us are interested in attracting wildlife into our gardens. It also indicated, however, that many of us have no idea how to go about it. Information is sparse, and public opinion seems to suggest that gardens that are plentiful in wildlife are unattractive, expensive to upkeep and hard work to maintain. But this couldn't be further from the truth.
In this illuminating book, Ken Thompson explains that encouraging wildlife is actually entirely compatible with ordinary gardening, costs next to nothing and is almost completely effortless. Packed with helpful hints and tips, the book shows us how easy it is to fill our gardens with everything from foxes, frogs and mice to butterflies, ladybirds and literally thousands of fascinating creepy-crawlies. Why should we? Because we'll be promoting the biodiversity of the UK, we'll be reconnecting with nature, getting more from our gardens, and we'll be doing our plants a favour.
Customer Reviews
Fascinating and worthwhile!
I found this book to be inspirational, and I congratulate the author for scientifically championing the virtues and essentials of wildlife gardening. His unique perspectives are certainly useful to all who wish to do better by wildlife in their gardens. I took many of his ideas to heart, and will be using them in the spring!
I did, however, feel as if the author overstepped his bounds slightly in his rather constant and unashamed belittling of native plants, natural landscapes and traditional wildlife gardening concepts. Granted they have been oversold without nearly enough proof, but there are elements of truth in them still, which have been observed by home gardeners (only rarely do such things have not even a grain of truth). Moreover, the huge number of BUGS gardens greatly prohibited their ability to assess much of the more sought-after wildlife, and even the wildlife they collected was not observed, only caught. They have very little data on exactly how these species were using their gardens, leaving much to speculation. I would like to see a sequel to this book with more behavioural observation!