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snippets and book reviews Planting for Butterflies
Jane Moore
Hardie Grant Quadrille (28 May 2020) ISBN 9781787135352
The sad truth is that butterfly populations and their natural habitats are threatened more seriously year by year. In the UK alone, five species have become extinct in the past 150 years and several others have died out in particular regions. It might not seem to be a crisis, but more species are critically endangered now than ever before, with three- quarters of UK butterflies in decline.
Planting for Butterflies is here to show you how you can help. Making a home for butterflies in your garden is easy to achieve and makes a lot of sense, as well as lending a new purpose to your choice of
plants. Bring in the butterflies and you will be helping to build an entire ecosystem, from pollination for plants to prey for birds.
No matter how
small or large
your space,
whether it’s a
window ledge in
a city or a country garden, Planting for
Butterflies offers advice on how to make the most difference with what you have, wherever you are. Plant the right plants and the butterflies will come.
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Sarah Raven’s A Year Full of Flowers: Gardening for all seasons
Photographs by Jonathan Buckley Bloomsbury Publishing (4 Mar. 2021) ISBN 9781526626110
Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that’s full of life and colour.
A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the
garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time.
Discover long-
lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through much of summer and well into autumn, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it’s also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life - this book shows you how you can too.
Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency (Paperback)
10 Allotment and Leisure Gardener
Liz Zorab
Permanent Publications (28 Feb. 2021) ISBN 9781856233026
Grounded is the story of a gardening journey, from bare field to bountiful feast! This is an inspiring tale of the transformation of a tired paddock to food abundance in just over four years with little money and a lot of resourcefulness and clever ideas.
Liz Zorab also tells the story of how she transformed her life, overcoming the effects
of chronic illness to develop a self-sufficient, independent lifestyle. This has taken Liz and her husband away from the rat race, giving them
greater freedom and a more abundant life.
Grounded is an inspiring blend of practical tips and ideas with personal narrative and a smattering
of humour. It will encourage you to take your first steps to self-reliance - because this is more easily achievable than you had ever imagined. It will show you how to:
• Becomemoreresilient
• Be creative with resources
• Make the most of the space you have
• Achieve more without exhausting yourself
• Fill your garden without emptying your pocket • Enjoy the process as much as the results