The review bus has ambled down the lane and I'm delighted I'm the next stop on the blog tour for Jean Vernon's latest book Attracting Garden Pollinators. It's great to have a volume which covers all kinds of insect pollinators — as well as bees — as the importance of many of them is often overlooked for our gardens.In the opening chapters stuffed with fascinating insights we find: without wasps we wouldn't have any bees (they evolved from them); some bees nest in snail shells as well as thrushes liking to find them (the snails that is); and hoverflies are highly useful pollinators as well chomping away at those pesky aphids. Jean neatly shows how i
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12.06.2023 - 01:13 / gardenerspath.com / Nan Schiller
Restoring Habitat with Charlotte Adelman and Bernard Schwartz’s Midwestern Native Shrubs and TreesI just finished reading the recently published gardening handbook, Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees: Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species, by Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz. It’s available on Amazon, and I can’t wait to tell you about it.
I first learned about Charlotte in another book I reviewed, The Humane Gardener, by Nancy Lawson.
Like Nancy, Charlotte learned through home gardening that nonnative plants do not support habitat for bees, birds, and butterflies. This sparked a long-simmering passion for environmentalism, and exemplary conservation efforts aimed at restoring ecosystems through native plantings.
An Almanac of AlternativesCharlotte’s book is the third publication she and her husband have co-authored.
Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees: Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species
It’s a comprehensive and ambitious undertaking that focuses on substituting native woody plants for nonnatives in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Canada.
However, the material is also applicable to states bordering this region, and to the Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province (EBF) region. Per the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, this includes portions of all of the states listed above except Kansas, plus areas of New York and Tennessee.
Meticulously researched, and annotated, this in-depth guide synthesizes a vast body of knowledge on subjects ranging from native and nonnative woody plants to biodiversity, lepidopterology (study of butterflies and moths), and ornithology (study of birds), with references to works by renowned experts
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