Description
This easy-to-use guide will help you encourage different types of insect pollinators into your garden. Without bees, flies, hoverflies, butterflies, moths and beetles, some of our favorite foods would cease to exist. Insect pollinators are essential to our planet, but they also bring joy to our gardens.
Creating a habitat for insect pollinators is easy – you can start on a windowsill or with some pots on your balcony. The book features a wide-ranging selection of plants, with gardening advice for all types of outdoor space and seasons. Award-winning wildlife photographer and writer Heather Angel reveals how plants communicate with their pollinators, and offers tips on watching foraging insects at work.
Planting to encourage insect pollinators is a fantastic first step in creating a wildlife-friendly garden, and this practical guide – illustrated with original photographs and featuring 100 different plant species, including bulbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs and climbers – will help readers discover firsthand the short- and long-term benefits of having a variety of pollinators visit your garden.
Softcover, 240 pages, 2023.