Chris Packham's Back Garden Nature Reserve

Product Description

Many of Britain's plants & animals have come to rely on gardens as their lifeline as natural habitats come under increasing pressure from human activity & global warming. This comprehensive revised guide reveals how to attract wildlife to gardens & encourage it to stay there. Written in a light-hearted yet passionate & authoritative style, the guide challenges popular notions of 'weeds' & 'pests' & invites gardeners to think again about the gardening choices they make. The informative & lively text is complemented by attractive photographs & illustrations & will encourage an interest in the natural world on the doorstep, whether your garden is a rural idyll or urban window box. Chris Packham argues that we have become so spellbound by nature's charismatic celebrities
- tigers, sharks, gorillas & pandas & their ilk
- that we are in danger of overlooking the most exciting species of all: those that we can touch, smell, observe & really get to know in our own backyard.