Making Gardens for Insects and Other Wildlife: The Importance of Butterfly and Pollinator Plants and the Basics of Garden Design - Softcover

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What if your garden could be both breathtakingly beautiful and a haven for butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and other essential wildlife? Making Gardens for Insects and Other Wildlife shows you how to create an organic, wildlife-friendly garden that works with nature—without sacrificing beauty, order, or style.

Written by gardener, biologist, and passionate butterfly advocate Lenora Larson and nursery owner and former wildlife rehabilitator Amy Albright, this practical guide combines science, hands-on experience, and years of growing expertise. The authors take the mystery out of creating a pollinator garden, giving you the knowledge and confidence to choose the right plants, design an inviting landscape, and maintain it using organic, wildlife-friendly practices. Inside, you'll discover how to:

• Design beautiful gardens that provide food, shelter, nesting sites, and other resources for pollinators and beneficial wildlife.
• Select plants that attract butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and other garden visitors throughout the seasons.
• Use organic approaches to soil health, fertilization, pest management, and garden maintenance.
• Create garden designs that blend wildlife habitat with attractive, intentional landscaping.
• Choose the right plants for different garden conditions, goals, and styles.
• Understand the science behind successful pollinator gardening—and put that science to work in your own yard.
• Plan for continuous blooms and a succession of resources that support wildlife throughout the growing season.

The book also includes comprehensive plant lists and ready-to-use garden designs, making it an invaluable reference whether you’re starting a small pollinator garden, transforming an existing landscape, or creating a larger wildlife sanctuary.

Lenora Larson brings a scientist's curiosity and a lifelong fascination with wildlife to the garden. A Marais des Cygnes Extension Master Gardener and member of the Idalia Butterfly Society and Kansas Native Plant Society, she holds a degree in microbiology from Michigan State University and spent her career in molecular biology.

Amy Albright, co-owner of Vinland Valley Nursery, has spent decades growing plants and developing practical, wildlife-friendly approaches to commercial horticulture. Since opening the nursery with her husband in 1998, she has helped grow it from a small operation into a diverse nursery featuring growing houses, display gardens, a cutting garden, and more. Her background as a wildlife rehabilitator has shaped her commitment to finding effective organic solutions for everything from soil amendments and fertilizers to alternative pest controls.

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