How to create a butterfly garden Bringing the beauty of butterflies into your world
Book - 2023
"Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. 'How to Create a Butterfly Garden' is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. This guide will teach you everything you need to get started--whether you're a suburban resident, the owner of a small urban garden, an apartment dweller, or a keeper of a country estate, you can enjoy frequent butterfly visits to your garden or window box. The key, Tekulsky believes, is learning some basic knowledge of butterfly characteristics and behavior and know...ing how to meet the needs of the butterfly species most common in your neighborhood. Not only is butterfly gardening one of the easiest ways to enjoy these enchanting creatures, but it's also a wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for generations to come"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Handbooks and manuals
- Published
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New York, NY :
Skyhorse Publishing
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "Originally published by Skyhorse under the title The Art of Butterfly Gardening."--Title page verso
- Physical Description
- xv, 190 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781510771406
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. What Is Butterfly Gardening?
- Chapter 2. Butterfly Lives
- Chapter 3. Regions and Seasons
- Chapter 4. Getting Started
- Chapter 5. Nectar Sources
- Chapter 6. Larval Foodplants
- Chapter 7. Butterfly Gardening Activities
- Chapter 8. How to Rear Butterflies
- Chapter 9. Conservation of Butterflies
- Fifty North American Garden Butterflies
- Nectar Sources
- Bibliography
- About the Photographs
- Index