Making Garden Meadows: How to Create a Natural Haven for Wildlife - Couverture souple

Steel, Jenny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908241225 ISBN 13 : 9781908241221

Editeur : Brambleby Books, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Jenny Steel's book shows how to create a meadow area that is full of wildflowers and wildlife. --The English Garden

'Making Garden Meadows' contains many useful tips on how to create a meadow, choosing the site, seed mixes to use, sowing and maintenance. --Garden News

Butterfly Gardening/ Making Garden Meadows - These two invaluable books by plant ecologist Jenny Steel are practical guides into turning even the smallest of gardens into a paradise for butterflies and other pollinating insects. With the countryside under threat like never before, the UK's gardens will prove to be an increasingly important sanctuary for butterflies. Steel explains what to plant and where in order to provide the right food and shelter throughout the year. For gardeners wanting to go one step further, 'Making Garden Meadows' provides key information on how to create a beautiful wild flower meadow from scratch with tips on growing cornfield flowers, maintaining your meadow and developing wildflower plugs from seed. Both of these books are must-reads for anyone interested in gardening for butterflies. --Butterfly Magazine

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jenny Steel is a plant ecologist who has had a great passion for natural history and gardening since her childhood. After working at Oxford University for 20 years, she established the Wildlife Gardening Centre, a plant nursery specialising in British native wildflowers and wildlife-friendly cottage garden plants. She now works as a freelance writer for magazines, as well as writing books on wildlife gardening.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Brambleby Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908241225
• ISBN 13: 9781908241221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72