Life In Your Garden: Gardening for Biodiversity - Hardcover

Manley, Reeser; Peronto, Marjorie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884484726 ISBN 13: 9780884484721

Verlag: Tilbury House, 2016

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Horticulture experts Reeser Manley and Marjorie Peronto share their own experiences in gardening for biodiversity, placing a strong emphasis on insect diversity as a bellwether of success. Insects comprise 60 percent of Earth's biodiversity, and they deserve to be recognized as the creatures that run our gardens. It is not the gardener's job to eliminate insects that munch on leaves, suck the sap from stems, bore holes in fruits, or graze on roots. This is the work of predatory insects and arachnids such as ladybug beetles, hoverfly larvae, praying mantises, certain wasps, and spiders. It is the gardener's task to cultivate populations of these predators. The Life in Your Garden also describes the functional plants of a garden (with recommendations for understory trees and shrubs throughout North America) and their relationship with garden life, introducing the concept of a “garden insectary.” That a gardener can be an important steward for our planet is a powerful concept, and here at last is the book that shows us how. Let wild pollinators into your garden. Nurture butterfly, bird and animal life. Encourage insect diversity for self-regulating ecosystem in the garden to help prevent mass extinction. No more rototiller use.Convert lawn to garden.Create a biorefuge with annuals, perennials, and native trees and herbaceous plants. A book for all of North America.

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Reeser Manley holds a Ph.D. in Horticultural Science and has gardened for many years in Massachusetts and Maine, and before that in South Carolina and Washington state. He is the author of The New England Gardener's Year.

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Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life,HIPPO Turning your garden into a refuge for all forms of wildlife may demand a new way of thinking about insects and spiders. When, at the end of summer, you notice that most of the leaves on your oak tree are riddled with holes, rejoice! The caterpillars that created those holes are what bird food looks like! When you spot a colony of aphids on the stem of a favorite plant, leave them for the ladybird beetles and woodpeckers. In late summer, as you notice that the population of harvestmen (relatives of daddy-long-legs) has boomed, thank them, for they are working on your behalf. And rather than be frightened by that two-inch long black wasp crawling across a cluster of milkweed blossoms, greet her as the helpful predator she is.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tilbury House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0884484726
• ISBN 13: 9780884484721
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Niederlande