Description
Book SynopsisPollinator Friendly Gardening shows you how to select plants and build habitat to make your garden a place for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators to thrive.
Trade Review"...it is excellent at reinforcing the importance of pollination, it offers numerous handy lists of all manner of plants (larval host plants for butterflies, landscape nectar plants for butterflies and bees, weeds that nevertheless provide nectar and pollen sources, etc.), and it provides practical advice on setting up a garden to make pollinators feel at home, among other topics. And for readers who might question whether their humble garden could help mitigate, even turn back, the loss of pollinators, the author and those she interviewed would certainly reply, "Believe it!"
* Booklist *
"...covers everything the average gardener needs to know to create a garden that attracts and sustains bees, butterflies and other pollinators - including plant selection, hardscape choices and growing practices."
* Minneapolis StarTribune *
"This is a valuable resource for developing a garden that supports healthy lives for bees and butterflies"
* Santa Cruz Sentinel *
"Hayes provides a plant list that reads like a greatest hits in support of bees, butterflies and hummingbirds."
* The Record - Hackensack, NJ *
