This is about The Wildlife Gardener Book by Kate Bradbury. I adore this book! It is all about gardening for wildlife in our gardens. Something I feel we all need to do much more of if we are to help and preserve our diverse and natural wildlife.
As we increasingly build on our countryside, our small or large gardens, even our patios and window boxes, are going to be more vital than ever to provide food, shelter and habitat for our wildlife. It is so easy to do and helps them so much.
The Wildlife Gardener: Creating a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies
I originally bought this book for a friend as a
present and spent the week in between buying it and wrapping it
up avidly reading it. In the end I loved it so much and found
myself wanting to refer back to it and missing reading it, I had
to go and order another one to keep for me!
The photographs are beautiful and for me that
is really important in a gardening or wildlife book, especially
if it is a gift. It is the sort of book that is a joy to read and
you are happy to leave out and pick up any time you like and it
simply is a lovely book.
However its not all about good looks and the
content is very interesting and inspiring. Interesting as it
covers how to bring all manner of wildlife into your garden from
birds, bees, insects, hedgehogs, badgers, butterflies and more.
It even helps with the basic identification of birds.
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It discusses
the type of plants and habitats and how to incorporate them in to
an ordinary garden. It is inspiring as though I thought I knew a
fair amount about wildlife it goes further and has ideas I had
not thought of as well.
If you know someone or are someone who loves
gardening and wildlife this is a lovely gift at a very good
price. I was proud to hand this over as a present at my friends
Birthday party where it was opened and we spent quite a bit of
time discussing the book!
I think I like it most as it is a lovely
relaxing read incorporating beautiful photographs with real ideas
and projects most people can easily incorporate into their own
gardens. It feels totally achievable and even on a very cold
day makes me feel like to I want to get out there in the garden.
Some ideas For Attracting Pollinating Insects To Our Gardens.
Do You Garden With Wildlife in Mind?
Help The Bees.
It is always a good idea to have some plants
that are loved by bees.Our bees are in trouble right now and need all
the help they can get.
So do plant flowers that are of an open habit
so that they can land and feed, there are so many pretty flowers
you can choose.
Bees Are Essential
Wildlife In Our Gardens.
I love to garden and we are in the process of
really sorting out our garden once again.
A garden is an ever changing, evolving entity
really. Plants grow and change, others die, we decide on a
different colour scheme or theme.
We need it more low maintenance, or we decide
to grow our own fruit and vegetables for the first time.
Wildlife gardening has become more popular
recently as people realise that with the destruction of habitat
in the wild many creatures are having to move into our gardens to
survive.
However, wildlife does not always find a
welcoming place in our sometimes over manicured gardens. Then
again we do not wish to have gardens that look like briar patches
or full of weeds.
This book can help you to gain that balance
between being wildlife friendly and having a lovely garden. It is
perfectly possible to have both.
If you are interested at all in encouraging
more butterflies, bees, hedgehogs and birds into your garden this
is a very good place to start.
Birds Are Fascinating In The Garden
Wildlife Friendly Garden Ideas.
Take a look at these videos all about
gardening with wildlife in mind. Once you get some ideas and
guidance it is not that difficult to have a beautiful garden
suitable for you and your family and somewhere for the wildlife
to visit and maybe set up home.
Birds, hedgehogs, butterflies and especially
bees all need our help now to survive and thrive. Bees are very
much in danger and if we lose our bees we are in danger too as
they are our main pollinator for our food.
If every garden incorporated even a small area
that is considered wildlife friendly it would make a huge
difference.
A Wildlife Garden in A Suburb Or CIty?
Yes it is perfectly possible to have a very
wildlife friendly garden in a city environment or a suburb of a
city. Your garden may be smaller but you can still have those
elements in it that attract wildlife.
Many relatively small plants such as lavenders
and rosemary will be excellent for bees and butterflies and also
very good for you as you can use in cooking, for lavender bags
and they are also very beautiful.
There are very many flowers which also attract
insects, butterflies and bees to your garden and at a very small
cost you can easily populate a small city garden or even if you
only have a balcony or window box with a feast for the eyes and a
haven for wildlife.
I would love to hear
about your wildlife gardening experiences. I do read every
comment and enjoy hearing from readers.
This book The Wildlife Gardener makes such a beautiful gift. Happy Wildlife Gardening!
Here are some comments I received when this was published on another site
This would be a book that I would love to see as well. Love flower and wildlife gardens.
hope you don't mind me pinning and sharing this
We
have foxes that come into our garden most evenings, a hedgehog that we
have seen a couple of times, and in the last few months badgers have
been using one of our flower beds as a toilet. We haven't seen them yet,
but we are planning to buy a motion activated camera so we can video
them.
It's
important to consider wildlife in any planting situation, be it a
buzzing bee or a black bear! I just saw a squirrel eating my
strawberries the other day and we also have a lot of lizards but they
seem to stay out of the garden and flowers. Thanks for bringing this to
our attention.
@paulahite:
Yes hedgehogs are a real fave of mine :) Thank you so much for
including my book review on your Facebook page. I do appreciate that :)
@Sylvestermouse:
I agree it is fascinating to watch wildlife in our gardens, I have
passed many fun and interesting hours that way :)
@nightbear lm: Yes I mostly love to try to attract butterflies, bees, birds and hedgehogs :)
@Ruthi:
I agree beautiful and informative is key to a good gardening/nature
book. Wow Black bears! I have no experience of bears at all as I am in
UK and we don't have any wild bears anymore. I can see how a plant that
would dissuade them from visiting so much would be helpful to you !
@Diana Wenzel: I hope you enjoy it. It is lovely to create a nature sanctuary and feel the garden come alive with nature.
@Wednesday-Elf: Yes I love it, even now after reading it cover to cover several times I still dip into it :)
I adore hedgies! Unfortunately, we don't have any here. I shared your book on our Facebook page today.
This
sounds like a wonderful book! I love surrounding myself with beautiful
flowers and wildlife. I still get excited to see a squirrel eat corn
from the corn cob holder/feeder and watching the blue birds nest every
year in my blue bird house.
The
main wildlife in my yard are birds, rabbits, squirrels, that kind of
thing. I would love of the kinds you have had, like a hedgehog. How
wonderful to have unusual critters around.
I
love beautiful books about nature and wildlife, but yes, informative is
important too. I am most interested in planting to attract butterflies
and birds. However, we are a neighborhood over-run by black bears in our
yards and I would like to know what to plant to dissuade them from
visiting my yard every day! Now, that's a wildlife book I need.
I
can tell I would enjoy this book. Thank you for bringing it to my
attention. When I lived in Texas, I specifically created a nature
sanctuary that would benefit both myself and the creatures who shared
that habitat with me. It was a joy. I would like to do the same here
in Colorado.
I
live in an apartment, so don't have a garden. But I can see the
enjoyment one would get from focusing on enticing wildlife to your
garden. This sounds like a fascinating book.
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