Garden Allies: Discover the Many Ways Insects, Birds and Other Animals Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving

Garden Allies is a book about how to nurture and welcome beneficial creatures into your garden, such as birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects, which pollinate flowers and vegetable crops, and keep pests in check. It features beautiful pen-and-ink drawings by Craig Latker and provides helpful information on how to create a thriving, balanced community that gives more to your landscape than it takes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2021
Publisher: Timber Press

In his book "The Nature of Oaks and Nature's Best Hope," Douglas W. Tallamy emphasizes the importance of creating a thriving and balanced community in our gardens that gives more to our landscape than it takes. Tallamy argues that the birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards and gardens are not our enemies but rather our allies. These creatures play a crucial role in pollinating our flowers and vegetable crops, and they also help keep pests in check.

In her book "Garden Allies," Frédérique Lavoipierre shares fascinating portraits of these creatures, describing their life cycles and showcasing how they maintain the ecological balance in our gardens. Lavoipierre provides helpful information on how to nurture and welcome these valuable creatures into our gardens, offering a renewed sense of nature's beauty and a garden that hums with life.

The book also features beautiful pen-and-ink drawings by Craig Latker, which help bring the creatures to life and encourage readers to make friends with them. By creating a garden that is friendly to these allies, we can contribute to the overall health and vitality of our environment and enjoy the many benefits that they provide.

Weight: 628g
Dimension: 166 x 191 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781643260082