Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
- ISBN-10
- 0881929921
- ISBN-13
- 9780881929928
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 358
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Timber Press (OR)
- Author
- Douglas W. Tallamy
Description
An introduction to sustainable, ecological gardening explains how to incorporate a variety of native plants into a backyard environment in order to create a healthy ecosystem that provides food and shelter for local wildlife of all kinds and includes helpful lists of garden-worthy native plants for every region of the United States.
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- 2012-03-27
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- Rizzoli Publications
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- 2009-09-01
- 360 pages
- Ebook
- Timber Press
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