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 gardener's guide to native plants of the Southern Great Lakes region
Gray, Rick (Native plant gardener)
Paper Book
A Globe and Mail Bestseller Gardening with native plants is perhaps the fastest-growing sector in the gardening world. More and more gardeners are discovering the pleasure and benefits of growing native plants, particularly for our dwindling pollinator and bird populations....
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: Complete instructions for designing and planting wildlife habitats, with over 40 practical projects, a directory of 70 wildlife species and 800 photographs
Christine Lavelle
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
Nancy Lawson
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 You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
Douglas W. Tallamy
Paper Book
This "miracle" of a guide book shows readers how to maintain harmony within their environment (Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post). In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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...
Bird, bee & bug houses : simple projects for your garden
Jones, Derek.
Paper Book
Transform your garden into a wildlife haven bursting with life by learning how to provide supplementary nesting sites to a host of creatures. Bird, Bee & Bug Houses explains all you need to know about how to create the perfect nesting place for a wide variety of species including birds, bats,...
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
"With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to engage in a hopeful future is to plant oaks! Let this book be your inspiration and guide." --The American Gardener With Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy changed the conversation about gardening in...
Serviceberry : Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Paper Book
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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