Pollinators

Learn about pollinator-friendly gardens.

Updated February 5, 2025
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Pollinator friendly gardening : gardening for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators
Hayes, Rhonda Fleming
Paper Book
Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator Friendly Gardening makes it easy. Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If...
The bee-friendly garden : design an abundant, flower-filled yard that nurtures bees and supports biodiversity
Frey, Kate
Paper Book
For every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helpsyou create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees. In The Bee-Friendly Garden, award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee...
How to create a wildlife garden : encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and bugs into your outside space
Lavelle, Christine.
Paper Book
This inspiring and accessible hands-on book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. This new updated edition of the award-winning book (Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year) gives easy-to-follow instructions backed up...
The humane gardener : nurturing a backyard habitat for wildlife
Lawson, Nancy
Paper Book
A philosophical and practical guide for the gardener who hopes to wants to create a backyard garden in harmony with nature. Why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. An eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson...
Bringing nature home : how native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens
Tallamy, Douglas W.
Paper Book
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining...
Braiding sweetgrass : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...
100 plants to feed the bees : provide a healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive
Paper Book
The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that support bees,...
The nature of oaks : the rich ecology of our most essential native trees
Tallamy, Douglas W.
Paper Book
Discover the complex and fascinating inner world of the mighty oak tree with this engaging nature book! The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From...
The living landscape : designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden
Darke, Rick.
Paper Book
This "thoughtful, intelligent" gardening book will help readers create a garden that nurtures the wildlife communities surrounding them (The New York Times Book Review). Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but...

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