Description:
Delightful and inspiring, The Blooming Lawn will show you how to transform any vacant land, large or small, into a rich, diverse habitat for animals, insects, and birds while restoring essential biodiversity to a patch of the Earth with your own hands. The Verners bought a small patch of land close to their home in England and gradually transformed it, with help from nature, into a verdant, blooming meadow attracting badgers, deer, and a wide variety of insects, birds, and butterflies. They describe how they designed it, selected native plants and trees, and spent many enjoyable hours observing wildlife in their own self-created meadow of wildflowers, trees, and special hedges. In a time when large fields of single-species plants dominate agricultural land, the need for a safe and healthy environment for an appropriate variety of natural, local wildlife is more important than ever. The Blooming Lawn will show you how one couple created such an inviting and rich space and how you can do the same yourself. --Mark A. Hetts
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