Chris Baines

In this revised and updated version of the classic How to Make a Wildlife Garden, professional environmentalist Chris Baines shows how you can transform your garden into a rich wildlife haven.

How to Make a Wildlife Garden

Jane Smart

A Guide to Habitat Creation

The Nest

The Wild Side of Town

Wildlife is a more significant and mainstream issue for gardeners than when this best-selling book was published in 1985 as How to Make a Wildlife Garden. Fully revised, updated and freshly illustrated, this new edition brings RHS research and best practice to a multitude of controversial areas: from the use of pesticides to bird boxes, bird tables and planting for birds; whether tidiness in the garden is a good thing for wildlife; the planting of native species over introduced ones; the idea of habitat creation to preserve diversity; how to attract and sustain butterflies; pollinating insects and the crash in bee populations and how gardeners are involved. Wildlife forms an increasingly important part of a gardener's responsibility and that responsibility become integral to their decision-making processes. Future gardeners can use this volume to be better informed guardians of the planet's resources. Chris Baines is the UK's foremost wildlife gardening expert and Vice President of the Wildlife Trusts.

RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening

Penny Ives

Two children and a kitten observe the activities of two birds as they build a nest, hatch their eggs, and care for their young.

Each story in this four-part series of young ecology books tells of how the lives of plants and animals change when human beings become involved. This is the story of two birds who are building their nest and rearing their young. It tells of the danger they face from the children's kitten.

Chris Baines

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