RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening

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Chris Baines is an award-winning writer and broadcaster and one of the UK's leading environmental campaigners. He writes popular monthly columns for both BBC Wildlife and BBC Gardeners' World magazines. He also worked as a landscape and sustainability adviser on the Millennium Dome project.

Author Chris Baines has a multifaceted career as a landscape architect, advisor to industry and government, teacher, writer and broadcaster, but the common theme that runs through all his work is concern for wildlife. He is National Vice President of the Wildlife Trusts, President of the Urban Wildlife Partnership and writes for BBC Wildlife, and is nature correspondent for BBC Gardeners' World magazine. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Its charitable work includes providing expert advice and information, training the next generation of gardeners, creating hands-on opportunities for children to grow plants, and conducting research into plants, pests and environmental issues affecting gardeners.

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RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening is the perennial and comprehensive guide to the art of wildlife gardening. Fully revised and updated by the author, this beautiful new edition is freshly illustrated and it highlights the changes in garden wildlife over the past 35 years.

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PART I
WHY MAKE A WILDLIFE GARDEN?
WHY WILDLIFE?
A SPECIAL ROLE FOR GARDENS
PLANNING THE GARDEN AS A HABITAT FOR YOU AND YOUR WILDLIFE
PART I I
CREATING NEW HABITATS
THE WOODLAND EDGE HABITAT
HEDGEROWS AND CLIMBERCOVERED SCREENS
LIVE-IN LAWNS AND WILDFLOWER MEADOWS
GARDEN PONDS AND OTHER 'WETLANDS'
PART I I I
SUPPLEMENTING THE HABITATS
COTTAGE GARDEN SERVICE STATION
A WILD KITCHEN GARDEN
BOOSTING WILDLIFE HABITATS
PROPAGATING NATIVE PLANTS
A RICH TAPESTRY OF WILDLIFE
STUDYING GARDEN WILDLIFE
OVER THE GARDEN WALL
PART IV
USEFUL ADDRESSES
INDEXES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PICTURE CREDITS