The Wildlife-friendly Garden

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Michael Chinery. The Wildlife-friendly Garden

Contents

PART ONE

The Garden Habitat

Garden diversity

Flower beds

Vegetable plots

Trees, shrubberies and hedges

Walls, fences and paths

Garden ponds

Go for variety

Wildlife-friendly gardens

Keep wildlife safe

A healthy garden

Garden friends and foes

Our friends

Our foes

Pest control

Avoid chemicals

Cultural control

Planning your garden

Plan it on paper

Trees and hedges

Garden paths

Pergolas

A wildlife meadow

Choose your species

Management is vital

The gardens hedge

What to plant

The animal residents

Wildlife walls

A wildlife refuge

The garden pond

Constructing the pond

Preformed fibreglass liner

Flexible liners

Creating an island

Creating a marsh garden

Mud-loving plants

Stocking your pond

Pond-dwellers

A log garden

Wildlife inhabitants

Under your feet

Indispensable earthworms

Slugs that eat earthworms

The compost heap

What to compost

Teeming with wildlife

The smallest wildlife

PART TWO

Garden Mammals

Reading the signs

Tell-tale footprints

Hairy evidence

Hedgehogs

Hedgehog dinner

Winter quarters

Rodents

Mice

Voles

The garden dormouse

The glis-glis

Squirrels

Deer

Foxes

Badgers

Bats

Bat homes

Bat rescue

PART THREE

Garden Birds

A beak for the job

Beak shapes

On the level

Multi-purpose beaks

Food for the birds

The bird table

Suggested food

Bird feeders

When to feed

Plants for birds

Native plants

Trees and shrubs for nests

Useful climbers

Herbaceous dinner tables

Familiar garden birds

Robins

Blue tits

House sparrows

Identifying garden birds

Houses for birds

Making a nest box

When and where

Nesting materials

Specialist boxes

Dealing with casualties

Baby birds

PART FOUR

Reptiles and Amphibians

Lizards

The legless lizard

Continental lizards

Snakes

Snakes in the grass

Beware of the zig-zag

Southern snakes

Frogs, toads and newts

Sleeping through the winter

Balletic newts

A frog’s life

PART FIVE

Insects and Other Invertebrates

Butterflies

Encouraging butterflies

Butterfly bushes

Caterpillars also need food

Identifying butterflies

Garden moths

Concealed or conspicuous?

Identifying moths

Attracting moths

Flowers for moths

Bees and wasps

Dancing bees

Hairy bumbles

Living alone

The bee hotel

Bumble bee homes

Flowers for bumble bees

Dragonflies

Dragons and damsels

Watery beginnings

Ladybirds

Colourful warnings

Vegetarian ladybirds

Spiders

Keeping a record

A closer look

Film and video

Spread the word

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Useful information

Useful websites

Bibliography

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Cover

Title Page

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Butterflies

Identifying butterflies

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