Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden

Name: Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

ISBN-10: 0871569752
ISBN-13: 9780871569752
Category: Nature / Animals / Butterflies & Moths
Pages: 208
Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Authors: Smithsonian Institution, Xerces Society

Description

This new edition of the classic handbook describes how to attract butterflies and other beneficial and beautiful insects to your garden.
Butterfly Gardening presents everything the gardener needs to know to create intricate, small-scale ecosystems in an urban or suburban setting that can substitute for the rapidly vanishing habitats that are essential to the survival of butterflies. Contributors to this volume include Miriam Rothschild, an eminent entomologist, avid butterfly gardener, and expert in wildflower conservation, who describes the life cycle of butterflies, how and what they see, and how this relates to "gardening with butterflies." Landscape architect Mary Booth provides imaginative garden designs and easy-to-follow directions for designing and planting. Edward S. Ross, pioneer of close-up nature photography, discusses observing and photographing butterflies.
The book also includes a "Master Plant List" of species that attract butterflies, butterfly food plants listed by geographic region, seed and plant resources, a list of gardening and conservation organizations, and a bibliography of books and periodicals about butterflies.

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Other editions

Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
- 1990
- 192 pages
- Paperback
- Sierra Club Books
Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide
- 2018-04-10
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide
- 2018-04-10
- 288 pages
- Ebook
- Princeton University Press

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