The Pollinator Victory Garden (eBook)

Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators

Kim Eierman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
256 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-1-63159-751-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWIIVictory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environmentthe steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals. Beetles, bats, birds, butterflies, moths, flies, andwaspscan be pollinators. But, many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators. With The Pollinator Victory Garden, you can give pollinators a fighting chance. Learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includespollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Find a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you: *; The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival*; How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession*; Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one*; Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals*; Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendlylawn alternatives The time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipallandscape can help to win the war against pollinator decline with ThePollinator Victory Garden.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: accessible • Activities • animal • animal pollinators • annuals • apiary • back yard • backyard • Bats • bees • Beetles • Beginner • Biennials • biodiversity • Biology • Birds • Box • Butterflies • CCD • climate change • Colony Collapse Disorder • Community • companion planting • container gardening • Crisis • Design • Diversity • DIY • Drought • Earth Day • ecobeneficial • eco-friendly • Ecology • ecosystem • environmental conservation • european honey bees • extinction • fight decline • Flies • Flowers • friendly yards • Front • Gardening • gardening for pollinators • Green • Habitat • heat wave • hell strip • Highway • Hive • hive collapse • Homestead • honeybee colony collapse disorder • honeybees • how to attract • how to attract pollinators • hummingbird • Ideas • Identification • Illustrated • Insects • Introduction • Irrigation • Islands • Landscape Design • lawn alternative • lawn alternatives • lawns • meadows • meadowscapes • Mix • Mosquito • Moths • native bees • native plants • native pollinators • natural beekeeping • natural pest control • nesting structure • New York Times • non floral foods • non floral foods for pollinators • organic pesticides • overwintering • perennials • Plans • Planting • plant partners • plant partners for pollination • plants • pocket gardens • pollen only plants • pollinate • pollinating birds • Pollination • pollinator box • pollinator diversity • pollinator extinction • pollinator friendly yards • pollinator garden • pollinator garden plans • pollinator highway • pollinator islands • pollinator mix • pollinator push garden • pollinator week • Practical • Projects • protection • PUSH • push garden • Reference • resource • Shrubs • small space • species • Step-by-step • Suburban • Sustainable living • Trees • Types • Urban • wasps • Week • Wildflower • wildlife
• ISBN-10: 1-63159-751-5 / 1631597515
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63159-751-0 / 9781631597510