Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything

About this book

Everything you need to know to turn your garden, balcony, patio or windowsill into a haven for wildlife.

If you want to attract more bees, birds, frogs and hedgehogs into your garden, Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything is your go-to guide. Teaming up with the RHS and Wildlife Trusts, award-winning, wildlife gardening writer Kate Bradbury shares expert, up-to-date advice on nature-friendly gardening and how to offer local wildlife natural food and shelter.

With handy charts tailored to every size and style of garden, this easy-to-use guide shows you how to create ideal habitats for the species you want to welcome. It features fact files for the UK's most common garden species, step-by-step projects – from making bee hotels and wildlife ponds, to compost corners and wildflower meadows – plus the latest guidance on growing fungi, attracting rarer bees to your pollinator plants, and feeding local birds naturally.

Whether you're growing vegetables, flower-filled borders or gardening on a balcony or doorstep, this fully updated guide is packed with simple, practical ideas to help every gardener create an attractive, climate- and wildlife-friendly outdoor space.

Contents

Introduction

What is rewilding?
The principles of wildlife gardening

Wildlife gardening for...
Pollinators
Bees
Butterflies and moths
Wasps
Beetles
True flies
True bugs
Other minibeasts
Birds
Amphibians and reptiles
Mammals

Growing fungi
Gardens and climate change
How to identify and record garden wildlife

Glossary
Acknowledgements
Resources
Index
Photograph credits

Customer Reviews

Biography

Kate Bradbury is an award-winning wildlife-gardening writer and author of One Garden Against the World and The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. She is the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners' World magazine, and writes a Guardian Country Diary column as well as for BBC Wildlife, the RHS' The Garden and The Wildlife Trusts' member magazines. Kate's garden appeared on BBC Springwatch and Gardeners' World, and she works with Froglife, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Butterfly Conservation charities.