Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard (eBook)

Sharon Sorenson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
232 Seiten
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-6743-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Welcoming birds to your yard isn’t about the right feeders and bird food. To attract the widest range of birds, you need to plant a diversity of native plants. Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard is the first book to tell you specifically what to plant to attract birds. All who love birds and beautiful gardens will find this book a must.

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Welcoming birds to your yard isn't about choosing the right feeders and bird food. If you want to attract the widest range of birds to your home, you need to plant a diversity of native plants. Why go green? Native plants live longer; they are drought resistant, take less water and fertilizer, they cost less, are less work and easier to maintain. And a big plusthey are good for the environment. In 2007, Douglas Tallamy published the groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home, on going native to protect wildlife. Since then Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the National Wildlife Federation, and National Audubon have all endorsed and encouraged gardening with native plants. Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard is the first book to cover planting native to specifically attract birds. The book recommends plants for all types of backyards, no matter how large or smallfrom large plots to container gardens. Sorenson gives state-specific recommendations for 31 Eastern U.S. states for native plants that support birds during the four seasons. The book covers the full gamut of native plants76 species of trees, shrubs, bushes, vines, grasses, perennials, and annualsand gives details on why specific plants are bird friendly and how to choose plants that work successfully in attractive home landscapes. Includes 66 bird species, all shown in dramatic color photos. Birders, gardeners, and landscapersall who love birds and beautiful gardenswill find this book a must.

Autor

Sharon Sorenson writes the biweekly "For the Birds" column for the Evansville (IN) Sunday Courier and regularly presents birding workshops for the Nature Conservancy and Indiana Audubon Society. She is the author of Birds in the Yard Month by Month (Stackpole, 2013) as well as a number of student reference books, including How to Write Research Papers, How to Write Short Stories, and Webster's New World Student Writing Handbook. She lives in Mount Vernon, Indiana.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 191 Illustrations including: - 3 Color Illustrations; - 155 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 17 Tables; - 16 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Birds • Gardening • Gardens • Landscape Design • Landscaping • native plants • planting native • plants that attract birds • selecting plants
• ISBN-10: 0-8117-6743-4 / 0811767434
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-6743-9 / 9780811767439