This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how
to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial
pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific
information with artful design strategies, Danesha Seth Carley and
Anne M. Spafford teach gardeners of all levels to plan, plant, and
maintain successful pollinator gardens at home and in shared
community sites. Everyday gardeners, along with farmers,
scientists, and policy makers, share serious concerns about ongoing
declines in bee and other pollinator populations, and here Spafford
and Carley deliver great news: every thoughtfully designed garden,
no matter how small, can play a huge role in providing the habitat,
nourishment, and nesting places so needed by pollinators. This book
explains all you need to be a pollinator champion.
*Covers USDA hardiness zones 6, 7, 8, and 9, including twelve
southern states
*Explains what makes pollinators happy—bees, for sure, and many
others, great and small
*Brings science and art together in gardens of all types, including
urban, food, container, community, school, and large-scale
gardens
*Provides step-by-step instructions for choosing locations,
preparing soil and garden beds, selecting the best plants,
considering seasonality in your garden design, managing your garden
throughout the year, and much more
*Richly illustrated with photographs, design plans, and handy
charts and lists