RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening

RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening is the perennial and comprehensive guide to the art of wildlife gardening. Fully revised and updated by the author, this beautiful new edition is freshly illustrated and it highlights the changes in garden wildlife over the past 35 years.

List of contents

PART I
WHY MAKE A WILDLIFE GARDEN?
WHY WILDLIFE?
A SPECIAL ROLE FOR GARDENS
PLANNING THE GARDEN AS A HABITAT FOR YOU AND YOUR WILDLIFE
PART I I
CREATING NEW HABITATS
THE WOODLAND EDGE HABITAT
HEDGEROWS AND CLIMBERCOVERED SCREENS
LIVE-IN LAWNS AND WILDFLOWER MEADOWS
GARDEN PONDS AND OTHER ‘WETLANDS’
PART I I I
SUPPLEMENTING THE HABITATS
COTTAGE GARDEN SERVICE STATION
A WILD KITCHEN GARDEN
BOOSTING WILDLIFE HABITATS
PROPAGATING NATIVE PLANTS
A RICH TAPESTRY OF WILDLIFE
STUDYING GARDEN WILDLIFE
OVER THE GARDEN WALL
PART IV
USEFUL ADDRESSES
INDEXES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PICTURE CREDITS

About the author

Chris Baines is an award-winning writer and broadcaster and one of the UK's leading environmental campaigners. He writes popular monthly columns for both BBC Wildlife and BBC Gardeners' World magazines. He also worked as a landscape and sustainability adviser on the Millennium Dome project.

Summary

RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening is the perennial and comprehensive guide to the art of wildlife gardening. Fully revised and updated by the author, this beautiful new edition is freshly illustrated and it highlights the changes in garden wildlife over the past 35 years.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Baines, Baines Chris
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2023
• EAN: 9780711281288
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-8128-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 1000 g
• Illustrations: colour photos
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; GARDENING / Garden Design, GARDENING / Flowers / Wildflowers, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Gardening: plants, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Natural and wild gardening, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Natural & wild gardening, Gardening with native plants