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A brisk but comprehensive guide to recommended anti-pest stratagems, including genius tricks to keep wily squirrels from eating all the seed when the feeders fail, when to tie sunflowers on to the shed roof, and more. Anne, a realist, also admits that some pests just can't be beaten, and advises when you should grow a different plant rather than prolong the fight.
About the author
Anne Wareham is a prolific garden writer for newspapers (including the Telegraph, Guardian and Spectator) and garden magazines (including The Garden). She edits the website ThinkinGarden, which has won a Garden Media Guild award and has a large following in the UK and abroad, receiving over 10,000 visits a month. Together with her husband, Charles Hawes, Anne has spent over 25 years creating the inspirational garden at Veddw House in Monmouthshire – it has been featured on Alan Titchmarsh's Love Your Garden and Escape to the Country as well as on German and French television. She has appeared on television as a judge in the series Britain's Best Home and Garden on Channel 5 and was included in a list of the most influential British gardeners in the Telegraph, January 2012. Her first book, The Bad-Tempered Gardener, was published by Frances Lincoln and has been called a 'best seller' by the Daily Mail. She describes herself 'a thorn in the flesh of the garden world'.
Summary
Outwitting Squirrels is a brisk but comprehensive guide to dealing with a wide range of garden pests. This honest, humorous book of advice will be appreciated by amateur and professional gardeners alike.
Foreword
An entertaining and practical collection of tips and tricks to outsmart all kinds of garden pests, written by one of Britain's most influential gardeners.
