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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
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by Douglas W. Tallamy
Sales Rank: 5164
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List Price: $27.95
$18.45
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on 10-15-2008
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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Timber Press November 6, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0881928542
ISBN-13: 978-0881928549
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
From Booklist
Tallamy takes an obvious observation—wildlife is threatened when suburban development encroaches on once wild lands—and weds it to a novel one: that beneficial insects are being deprived of essential food resources when suburban gardeners exclusively utilize nonnative plant material. Such an imbalance, Tallamy declares, can lead to a weakened food chain that will no longer be able to support birds and other animal life. Once embraced only by members of the counterculture, the idea of gardening with native plants has been landscape design's poor stepchild, thought to involve weeds and other plants too unattractive for pristine suburban enclaves. Not so, says Tallamy, who presents compelling arguments for aesthetically pleasing, ecologically healthy gardening. With nothing less than the future of North American biodiversity at stake, Tallamy imparts an encouraging message: it's not too late to save the ecosystem-sustaining matrix of insects and animals, and the solution is as easy as replacing alien plants with natives. Haggas, Carol
Product Review
"An informative and engaging account of the ecological interactions between plants and wildlife, this fascinating handbook explains why exotic plants can hinder and confuse native creatures, from birds and bees to larger fauna." -Ann Lovejoy, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Ann Lovejoy Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
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