a how-to guide by Jan Miller-Klein.
A book long in the writing, including hundreds of colour photos from many different specialists in butterflies, moths, bumblebees, honeybees, hoverflies, ladybirds and flowers.
Large format, easy to read, dip-into guide with colour-coded chapters on;
which plants to use - each with big colour photo and common name as well as Latin name and growing instructions.
how to identify the most useful and beautiful insects that may come to your garden.
how to make an insectary garden to attract natural pest-predators to your veg. patch so you don't have to use pesticides.
designs to copy for borders, patio pots, deep beds in urban settings as well as in the countryside.
creating different habitats like wildflower meadows,green roofs and dragonfly ponds.
appendices of where to find useful societies, websites, suppliers of plants and seeds and lots, lots more!
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reviews and comments received so far:
I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the copy of ‘Gardening for Butterflies, Bees and Other Beneficial Insects’.
I had a chance to get a good look at the weekend, and was really delighted with it. The Section on ‘How to Identify Butterflies’ is really one of the best I’ve seen, as someone who is vaguely interested in this area, and the section on Bees was also amazing – I had no idea about the diversity here!
Not really being much of a gardener (and that’s something of an understatement!), I’m sure that some of the finer points about the design and lay-out will have passed me by – but the combination of excellent design and very practical advice is a sure winner. Amazing piece of work.
Very best wishes
Jonathon Porritt
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Bob Flowerdew;
I love the concept and can see you have put much work into researching for it, I would have preferred a slightly less large, less DK and a less coffee table book, however the photography is excellent.Still a good effort, well done, Bob
Dusty Gedge;
I think it is a great - looks good, reads well and an excellent addition to the canon on creating wildlife - well done.
Hi Jan
Just received a copy of the book - looks brilliant! - the quality of the printing & binding is fabulous!!
Fingers crossed they sell like hot cakes for you!
Many Thanks & Best Wishes
Lucy
Many thanks for your e-mail. I can say, with great pleasure, that I can update Order Status to "RECEIVED". And- "well received", what a lovely book!
Yours sincerely, Henry Caistor
Jan
Thanks very much for the book- well done you must be very proud.
Best wishes, Richard Scott Liverpool Wildflower Centre
Dear Jan,
Many thanks for sending me a copy of your new book which is clearly a labour of love on your part. You must be delighted to see it in print. I have added a reference to my web site giving the publication details in the hope that it might attract a bit more custom. Presumably you will be taking advantage of the Butterfly Conservation event at Juniper Hall later this month as a sales opportunity.With best wishes, David Element
I think the text I have read so far is excellent by the way. It is an excellent book. Full of good information and advice based on solid experience, e.g. about school gardens. Marc Carlton
EXCELLENT, a fine book. Thank you;a fine addition to the wildlife gardening list.
David Henderson
The book is really lovely - easy to access because of the large print and clear layout, and beautiful crisp photos.
Caroline Parry
It really is a beautiful, well designed book and I am sure you will sell lots of copies. It is bound to encourage more people to grow wildlife friendly plants in their gardens and to develop an interest in insects. Janet Graham.
Just writing to thank you for my copy of the book and to congratulate you on such a fine work. It looks splendid and I think you did marvellously to get it all together, get all those excellent illustrations and get illustrious people like Dusty Gedge to contribute. I really think it has the makings of a classic and I hope it sells well and gets good reviews. You obviously put enormous work into it, and it pushes forward the genre of wildlife gardening books onto a new level. Marc Carlton.
Lynn Fomison;
Is there room on your book shelf for just one more book on gardening for the creatures we love? I hope so! Jan Miller is an exceedingly active volunteer with Butterfly Conservation in North Wales and a very knowledgeable horticulturalist. This book combines her interests & skills to give newcomers to gardening for butterflies etc an excellent manual. Pleasingly it does offer new ideas to old hands at butterfly gardening too, especially suggestions for moraine gardens and butterfly banks.
Moths are not forgotten either with numerous references made to plants & features to help them and their caterpillars.. It is lavishly illustrated & a joy to read.
. I have to tell you, I enjoyed the book SO much, and hope I was able to communicate my enthusiasm in the review. You do a wonderful balancing act between the total gardening-for-wildlife brigade who want huge patches of nettles and piles of rotting logs everywhere, and the Robin Lane Fox types whose first instinct is to reach for a can of bugspray. Well done, girl!
Pat Huff, Editor, Plant Heritage (NCCPG)
. I have really enjoyed reading your wonderful new book. I think that it is written in way that is very easy to understand and brings together a lot of information that I have on leaflets that I have acquired from various 'butterfly centres' over the years. I just hope that I can now find the time to transform my garden in some of the ways that you describe. Mike Starkey
