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Wildlife Gardening Books by Jenny Steel - a new book coming soon and others to order by post

 

WILDFLOWER GARDENING - WILDFLOWERS FOR EVERY GARDEN SITUATION.   Click here for more information about this book

 
BRINGING A GARDEN TO LIFE - the Wiggly Wigglers guide to bringing your garden to life.  Click here for more information about this book

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THE USBORNE LITTLE BOOK OF GARDEN WILDLIFE.  Are your children interested in the wildlife in your garden?  This Usborne book, for which Jenny was a consultant, is available from this website.  Suitable for age 5+ it is fun, informative and beautifully illustrated.    Hardback, small format, 64 pages and colour illustrations and photographs throughout.   £6.00 + £1.50 p&p   Order here

These books are all available to order by post.  Click on 'order here' to take you to the printable order form.  This can be filled in and sent by post together with your cheque.  Book dispatch is usually within five working days using second class post.

MEADOWS AND CORNFIELDS - How to create and maintain a meadow or cornfield to attract wildlife to your garden.
If you have ever contemplated a meadow or cornfield area in your garden, this book will tell you how to do it, and how to look after it to ensure its continued beauty.  Illustrated with photographs taken in her own garden, this book guides you through the processes involved to help you create an area full of wildflowers and teaming with wildlife.  
£3.50 + 70p p&p A5 softback, 28 pages, 18 colour photos  
Sorry - temporarily out of stock

 
BUTTERFLY GARDENING
How to encourage butterflies to visit and breed in your garden. 
This book shows the wildlife gardener how to encourage more butterflies into the garden, by providing nectar flowers and butterfly habitats  It contains sections on making nectar borders, encouraging butterflies to breed and the importance of meadows. 
£4.95 + 70p p&p  A5 softback, 40 pages with 4 pages of full colour photographs  Order here

 

WILDLIFE PONDS 
This book will show you exactly how to create a wildlife pond that frogs, newts and dragonflies will flock to.  It contains sections on good plants, the wildlife you can expect and maintenance as well as the importance of ponds in our countryside and towns are all included.
£3.50 + 70p p&p  A5 softback, 36 pages, 16 colour photos  Order here
 

 

 

COTTAGE GARDEN PLANTS - A descriptive list of useful plants to attract wildlife to your garden.  
The second in this series lists familiar cottage garden plants which are useful for attracting a variety of wildlife to your garden.  The list includes bulbs, herbaceous plants and annuals, giving flowering time, special soil conditions and most importantly which plants will attract bees, butterflies or hoverflies.  The symbols in the text also indicate which have seeds to encourage our finches and other seed eaters to the garden. 
£3.00 + 70p p&p  A5 softback, 28 pages   Sorry, temporarily out of stock
WILDFLOWERS - A descriptive list of over 140 wildflowers to attract wildlife to your garden.
As wildlife gardening becomes more popular, many gardeners are planting wildflowers in their gardens to attract butterflies, bees and many other types of insect.  This booklet lists over 140 wildflowers that are suitable for garden cultivation, giving their flowering time, colour, height, conditions the plant prefers and most importantly, what insects (or birds) the plant attracts.  Other booklets in this series are Cottage Garden Plants and Native Trees, Shrubs and Climbers. 
£3.00 + 70p p&p  A5 softback, 28 pages  Order here
NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS AND CLIMBERS - A descriptive list of 70 native trees, shrubs and climbers to attract wildlife to your garden.
The third in the Plants for Wildlife Series, this book list 70 native trees, shrubs and climbers suitable for garden cultivation.  It gives information on their height, the soil conditions they prefer, whether they have flowers or berries and most importantly, what wildlife they attract.
£3.00 + 70p p&p  A5 softback, 28 pages    Order here

 

     © Text and photographs Jenny Steel 2008