What Lives In The Garden

Author : Nancy Lawson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781616896171

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The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson Pdf

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Author : John Woodward
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836878590

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What Lives In the Garden? by John Woodward Pdf

Examines the insects, spiders, and other tiny creatures that live in gardens, and the ways that they interact with one another.

Author : Jim and Joel Ashton,Ashton Joel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241435811

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Wild Your Garden by Jim and Joel Ashton,Ashton Joel Pdf

"It's up to every single one of us to do our bit for wildlife, however small our gardens, and The Butterfly Brothers know just how that can be achieved." Alan Titchmarsh Join the rewilding movement and share your outdoor space with nature. We all have the potential to make the world a little greener. Wild Your Garden, written by Jim and Joel Ashton (aka "The Butterfly Brothers"), shows you how to create a garden that can help boost local biodiversity. Transform a paved-over yard into a lush oasis, create refuges to welcome and support native species, or turn a high-maintenance lawn into a nectar-rich mini-meadow to attract bees and butterflies. You don't need specialist knowledge or acres of land. If you have any outdoor space, you can make a difference to local wildlife, and reduce your carbon footprint, too. "Wildlife gardening is one of the most important things you can do as an individual for increasing biodiversity and mitigating the effects of climate change. From digging a pond to planting a native hedge, the Butterfly Brothers can help you every step of the way." Kate Bradbury

Author : Jean Vernon
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781526711892

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The Secret Lives of Garden Bees by Jean Vernon Pdf

A friendly, accessible insight into the weird, but wonderful world of bees in your garden From the common or garden bumblebees that nest in bird boxes, compost heaps and old mouse holes, making ‘Winnie the Pooh’ style honey pots to feed their babes, to the quirky wool carder bee; a solitary bee that combs the fluff from garden plants to line her brood cells and the amazing leaf cutter bee that carves chunks out of plant foliage to seal it’s egg chambers. This book will reveal the secrets and fascinating lives of the bees that live and breed in your garden, from buzz pollination, to the bee robbers that cheat the plants and steal nectar by stealth. With a chapter per season to explore what you are likely to see in your garden, great plants to grow to help them, plus other fascinating information on these secretive creatures, this book is designed to bring alive the world of garden before your very eyes.

Author : John-Paul Wilkins
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406285086

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What Can Live in a Garden? by John-Paul Wilkins Pdf

With fantastic images and simple text, books in this series serve as a perfect introduction to different habitats and show how a wide variety of animals and plants are beautifully adapted to live there. In What Can Live in a Garden? Readers learn about what conditions in garden habitats are like, microhabitats and the ingenious ways plants and animals are designed to live in gardens.

Author : Anne Mottola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Backyard gardens
ISBN : OCLC:974927050

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What Lives in the Garden? by Anne Mottola Pdf

Author : Calvin Simonds
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781612121994

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Private Lives of Garden Birds by Calvin Simonds Pdf

Brimming with stories, wisdom, and expert knowledge, this delightful book gives enthusiasts a peek into the private worlds of eleven North American birds: swallows, blue jays, chickadees, song sparrows, house sparrows, phoebes, mockingbirds, crows, red-winged blackbirds, robins, and hummingbirds. Calvin Simonds shows you how to really observe these birds -- how to interpret the caws of crows, recognize blue jays from their facial markings, understand the flight patterns of swallows. You'll be enthralled as you eavesdrop on a group of sparrows trading songs in a "hootenanny," feel the dry grip of a chickadee's claws on your fingers, tramp through a summer meadow to visit a phoebe, and much more.

Author : Herb Purnell,Elsie Purnell
Publisher : BookLocker.com
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798885310970

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Stones of Remembrance in the Garden of Our Lives: One Family's Experiences of the Faithfulness of God by Herb Purnell,Elsie Purnell Pdf

Memories can grow dim and become lost over time. Through his prophets and apostles God called on his people to remember his works and not let their memories of his faithfulness fade away. This book is one family’s account of God’s faithfulness in their lives, from childhood to advanced age, through joy and deep grief, blessing and rejection, while living with the challenges of ordinary life in the U.S. and in Thailand. It gives chronological examples of God’s faithfulness that show how his continuing care and faithfulness strengthened their faith, even in the darkest valleys.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brimax Publishing
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Garden animals
ISBN : 1858546435

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Who Lives in the Garden? by Anonim Pdf

Discover who lives in the garden in this engaging introduction to the natural world. Features a wide variety of common garden creatures from birds to bugs. This informative book helps young children recognize and identify the animals in their own garden.

Author : Susan Doherty
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735276529

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The Ghost Garden by Susan Doherty Pdf

"A compelling act of connection, leavened with humour, clear-eyed yet packed with hope." —Ann-Marie MacDonald A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned. Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. For the past 10 years, many who have cycled in and out of the locked wards of the Douglas Institute in Montreal found a friend in Susan, who volunteers on the wards and then accompanies her friends out into the world. With their full cooperation, she brings us intimate stories that challenge our views of people with mental illness. Through "Caroline Evans," a woman in her early sixties whom Susan has known since she was a bright, sunny school girl, we experience living with schizophrenia, such as when Caroline was convinced she could save her roommate from the devil by pouring boiling water into her ear... She has been through it all, including having to navigate an indifferent justice system that is incapable of serving the severely ill. Susan interleaves Caroline's story with vignettes about her other friends—stories that reveal their hopes, circumstances, personalities, humanity. Susan found that if she can hang in through the first 10-15 minutes of every coffee date with someone in the grip of psychosis, true communication results. Their "madness" is not otherworldly: instead it tells us something about how they're surviving their lives and what they've been through. The Ghost Garden carries a cargo of compassion and empathy that motivates us to re-examine our understanding of justice, society and humanity.

Author : Ferdinand Leffler
Publisher : Host
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9788074916762

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Live in Your Garden by Ferdinand Leffler Pdf

Are you looking for inspiration for a new garden, or do you want to do something with the one you already have? Or is it that you just want to daydream and let yourself be carried away by beautiful garden scenes? This beautifully presented book brings a fresh and contemporary view of the garden as a welcoming place where you can live well and spend delightful moments with your loved ones. The carefully selected photographs by top photographers have managed to capture not only design of the highest quality, but also the enchanting atmosphere and genius loci of many magical little corners of gardens. This book will guide you from your initial thoughts and planning, through examples of design in various completed gardens to specific practical advice and tips. Your guide to the dream garden that will add a new dimension to your life is Ferdinand Leffler, a successful and well-known landscape architect, author of many award-winning designs and completed projects in the Czech Republic and abroad. He is also the face of the TV programme Ferdinand’s Gardens and owner of the design studio Atelier Flera. Ferdinand Leffler has achieved success in both private and professional spheres of life. It’s enough to talk with him for a while to understand why. The blend of his easy-going manner, rational approach and detached perspective is literally contagious. - Ondřej Krejčí, Dům a zahrada (House and Garden)

Author : Gene Schultz
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781636303437

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The Garden of Our Lives by Gene Schultz Pdf

: Dad loves to garden, and at eighty-three years of age, he, along with mom, Bernice, maintain a property of thirteen acres; the house is surrounded with beautiful perennial gardens, overlooks a spring fed pond, and the woods beyond. Through last year, his vegetable gardens were enough to feed a small village. Gene's garden articles were inspired by his decades long participation in his parish's Stewardship Committee. Many of his articles, first written for the church's bulletin, are here for us in this collection. Gene says, "From the onset of the relationship between God and humans, the setting is in a garden. In developing this involvement between us and Source through the Old Testament, the analogy of a garden is very beautiful and informative. Gardens imply growth. The growth of individuals physically, emotionally, and spiritually is never done in isolation. Rather, it necessarily entails relationships within community. A garden is expected to produce fruit. However, this end result is usually the product of much toil, interest, and concern. In other words, it's not automatic."

Author : David C. Stuart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 067401104X

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Dangerous Garden by David C. Stuart Pdf

As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digitalis. The gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, revealing more than soothing balms and heroic cures. Most of the truly powerful and effective medicinal plants are double-edged, with a dark side to balance the light. They can heal or kill, calm or enslave, lift depression or summon our gods and monsters. Often the difference between these polar effects is a simple change in dosage. Stuart chronicles the tale of how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes. As plant species traveled the globe, their medicinal uses evolved over miles and through centuries. Plants once believed to be cure-alls are now considered too dangerous for use. Others, once so valuable that they sowed the wealth of empires, are merely spices on the kitchen shelf. David Stuart recounts engrossing human stories too, not only of the scientists, explorers, and doctors who gathered, named, and prescribed these plants but also the shamans, magicians, and quacks who claimed to possess the ultimate herbal aphrodisiac or elixir.

Author : Kay Weisman
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554989713

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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden by Kay Weisman Pdf

Discover the wonder of ancient sea gardens on the Northwest Coast Sea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging the growth of clams and other marine life on the gently sloped beach. This lyrical story follows a young child and an older family member who set out to visit a sea garden early one morning, as the lowest tides often occur at dawn. After anchoring their boat, they explore the beach, discover the many sea creatures that live there, hear the sputtering of clams and look closely at the reef. They reflect on the people who built the wall long ago, as well as those who have maintained it over the years. After digging for clams, they tidy up the beach, then return home. An author’s note provides further information about sea gardens (also known as clam gardens), which yield a reliable food source and have been traditional places of learning. They have been found along the Pacific coast, from Alaska to British Columbia to Washington State, and some of these gardens are being restored today. The manuscript has been vetted and approved by the scientists of the Clam Garden Network and Kwaxsistalla Wathl’thla Clan Chief Adam Dick. Roy Henry Vickers, whose ancestry includes the Tsimshian, Haida and Heiltsuk First Nations, has created hauntingly beautiful images to accompany the text. Key Text Features author’s note Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.6 Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.

Author : John Woodward
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Garden animals
ISBN : 0764121081

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What Lives in the Garden? by John Woodward Pdf

Discover animals that slide and scuttle through your lawn, hedges, and flowerbeds.