Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

In Planting for Garden Birds find straightforward ideas and easy to achieve plans that will make your garden irresistible to birds.

Packed with interesting facts, environmental and habitat information as well as easy to achieve planting ideas, this is a practical, illustrated guide for people wanting to encourage more birdlife to their outdoor space.

By gardening sustainably, you can make a considerable difference to the wildlife populations in your immediate area, as well as in the country as a whole. While some birds are residents we’ll see from day to day, others are fleeting visitors – but they’re all potential guests in our gardens if we make the environment suitably welcoming.

Planting for Garden Birds is aimed at the keen amateur gardener and those hoping to take their knowledge and experience to the next level.

Planting for Garden Birds is part of a series of books aimed at encouraging wildlife into your garden. Other titles in the series are: Planting for Butterflies, Planting for Wildlife, Planting for Honeybees.

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Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

In Planting for Garden Birds find straightforward ideas and easy to achieve plans that will make your garden irresistible to birds.

Packed with interesting facts, environmental and habitat information as well as easy to achieve planting ideas, this is a practical, illustrated guide for people wanting to encourage more birdlife to their outdoor space.

By gardening sustainably, you can make a considerable difference to the wildlife populations in your immediate area, as well as in the country as a whole. While some birds are residents we’ll see from day to day, others are fleeting visitors – but they’re all potential guests in our gardens if we make the environment suitably welcoming.

Planting for Garden Birds is aimed at the keen amateur gardener and those hoping to take their knowledge and experience to the next level.

Planting for Garden Birds is part of a series of books aimed at encouraging wildlife into your garden. Other titles in the series are: Planting for Butterflies, Planting for Wildlife, Planting for Honeybees.

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Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

by Jane Moore
Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

by Jane Moore

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In Planting for Garden Birds find straightforward ideas and easy to achieve plans that will make your garden irresistible to birds.

Packed with interesting facts, environmental and habitat information as well as easy to achieve planting ideas, this is a practical, illustrated guide for people wanting to encourage more birdlife to their outdoor space.

By gardening sustainably, you can make a considerable difference to the wildlife populations in your immediate area, as well as in the country as a whole. While some birds are residents we’ll see from day to day, others are fleeting visitors – but they’re all potential guests in our gardens if we make the environment suitably welcoming.

Planting for Garden Birds is aimed at the keen amateur gardener and those hoping to take their knowledge and experience to the next level.

Planting for Garden Birds is part of a series of books aimed at encouraging wildlife into your garden. Other titles in the series are: Planting for Butterflies, Planting for Wildlife, Planting for Honeybees.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787138308
Publisher: Quadrille
Publication date: 05/26/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 36 MB
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About the Author

In a horticultural career spanning 30 years, Jane Moore has been head gardener at a Benedictine Abbey, a writer for national gardening magazines and newspapers, a researcher on BBC gardening programmes and a presenter on BBC TV's Gardeners' World. Gardening, and writing about gardening, have encompassed Jane's whole career. She has wide-ranging practical experience, an astonishingly broad plant knowledge and an unswerving enthusiasm for gardens, horticulture and its impact on everyday life. She has also published Planting for Butterflies (2020) and Planting for Wildlife (2021).

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

Chapter 1 10

Why garden especially for birds?

Spotlight: Wrens

Chapter 2 18

Interesting facts about birds

Spotlight: Pigeons, Woodpigeons and Collared Doves

Chapter 3 26

Habitat essentials

Spotlight: Sparrows and Dunnocks

Chapter 4 36

Layered planting

Spotlight: Blackbirds and Thrushes

Chapter 5 48

Spring birds and plants

Spotlight: Woodpeckers

Chapter 6 66

Summer birds and plants

Spotlight: Swifts, Swallows and House Martins

Chapter 7 84

Autumn birds and plants

Spotlight: Blue Tits and Great Tits

Chapter 8 102

Winter birds and plants

Spotlight: Robins

Chapter 9 116

Spotting birds

Spotlight: Finches

Spotlight: Owls

Chapter 10 126

Problems and predators

Spotlight: Sparrowhawks

Spotlight: Crows, Magpies and Jays

Chapter 11 134

Resources and reading list

Index of common and Latin names

Acknowledgements and about the author

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