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OverviewThis step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific information with artful design strategies, Danesha Seth Carley and Anne M. Spafford teach gardeners of all levels to plan, plant, and maintain successful pollinator gardens at home and in shared community sites. Everyday gardeners, along with farmers, scientists, and policy makers, share serious concerns about ongoing declines in pollinator populations, and here Spafford and Carley deliver great news: every thoughtfully designed garden, no matter how small, can play a huge role in providing the habitat, nourishment, and nesting places so needed by pollinators. This book explains all you need to be a pollinator champion. Covers USDA hardiness zones 6, 7, 8, and 9, including twelve southern states; Explains what makes pollinators happy-bees, for sure, and many others, great and small; Brings science and art together in gardens of all types, including urban, food, container, community, school, and large-scale gardens; Provides step-by-step instructions, from choosing locations, preparing soil and garden beds, selecting the best plants, designing, landscaping, and sustaining your garden through the seasons, and much more; Richly illustrated with photographs, design plans, and handy charts and lists. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Danesha Seth Carley , Anne M. SpaffordPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Weight: 0.372kg ISBN: 9781469659411ISBN 10: 1469659417 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 30 March 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA delightful, easy to understand guidebook. . . . Not only is the science impeccable, this outdoor lover's manual is full of wisdom, history and wonderful observations about nature, even human nature.--Lloyd Brinson, Briar Patch Books Author InformationDanesha Seth Carley is associate professor of horticultural science at North Carolina State University and director of the Southern Integrated Pest Management Center. Anne M. Spafford is associate professor of horticultural science at North Carolina State University and coauthor of Rain Gardening in the South. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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