Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden: Creating Backyard & Balcony Habitats for Wildlife (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881792010)

Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden is a backyard ecologist's handbook for helping wildlife thrive in the backyard or on the balcony. The book takes readers through the planning, design, and realization stages of creating wildlife habitats, using ecologically sound gardening and landscaping techniques, and 46 projects for housing and feeding birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden teaches readers not only how to enhnace their garden but also how to encourage the survival of many native plant and animal species in North America, creating important pathways for wildlife, one garden at a time. The layperson will find the writing style and content entirely approachable, and there are loads of photographs, ilustrations, diagrams and sidebars to make the abundance of information easily digestible.

Author: Catherine J. Johnson, Susan McDiarmid
ISBN-10: 0881792012
ISBN-13: 9780881792010
Publisher: Hartley & Marks Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 10.06h x 8.04w x 0.76d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2003 pg. 150
Booksense '76 December 2004 12/01/2004 pg. 1