Book Description
A practical and inspiring guide.
Wildlife gardening books have traditionally focused on large gardens in rural areas where there is ample space to plant large trees and hedges. For many new gardeners or those living in urban areas, working with a small space presents a variety of challenges when trying to attract beneficial wildlife.
Wildlife-Friendly Plants is a practical guide specifically designed to help gardeners chose the best plants for encouraging and supporting wildlife. By attracting beneficial wildlife, gardeners can eliminate the use of a range of chemicals and create a healthier environment. This book is intended for any size garden from large to small in the city or country.
Wildlife-Friendly Plants includes:
- Beautifully photographed directory of wildlife friendly plants
- Helpful step-by-step projects for planting, pruning and dividing
- Extended backflap with a guide to the symbols used throughout the book.
Many of these plants are perfect for use in small spaces, such as a patio, terrace or window box. With the valuable suggestions for use, planting and maintenance, anyone can create a safe haven for beneficial insects, amphibians and birds.
Wildlife-Friendly Plants is the ideal book for gardening and wildlife enthusiasts everywhere.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful pictures, lite prose.......2006-03-02
For 12 pages, the book discusses the interaction of plants and wildlife. Another 12 pages offer basic tips on planting, plus a few projects. The remaining 115 pages offer 'plant directory'. Each plant gets 1-2 pages, including a wonderful color photos. The photos are magnificent, but the discussion relatively uninformative.
I found "Great Garden Companions : A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden" by Sally Jean Cunningham far more helpful.
From soil preparation to choosing the right plants.......2005-02-10
Many home gardeners wish to create a natural habitat for wildlife but don't know how: Rosemary Creeser's bright Wildlife Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden A Haven For Beneficial Insects, Amphibians And Birds covers plants which invite not only birds, but beneficial insects and amphibians, expanding the number of creatures which fall under the 'beneficial' flag. Contrasting colors, scents, and shapes are the heart of creating such a sanctuary, and Creeser's practical advise covers everything from soil preparation to choosing the right plants that go together.
The joys of plants and animals.......2004-11-17
This is a wonderful book that makes you think about which plants to select and grow in your garden, backyard, roof top or balcony with a view not just for the colors, fragances and beauty they bring to you as a human but also what kinds of wildlife they can attract to also enjoy the fragances, blooms, blossoms and nectars they provide.
The guidance on how to do this throughout the book is clear and beautifully illustrated, with enticing descriptions of nectar-rich plants for attracting different species, from bees to birds throughout the year. Suggestions like planting a creeping thyme that is nectar-rich in the small crevices between the stones on a gravel path to enable butterflies to bask in the early morning sunshine provides a quite different way of thinking about what to plant in a garden. Not just to enrichen your own experience but also provide a haven, a home and a food supply for insects.
The extensive plant directory also includes a wonderful set of home drawn (and easy to understand) set of symbols for both plant and wildlife attributes - my favorite being the kinky shaped caterpillar. Each plant is described in terms of the region it will grow in, where to plant it and how to care for it to attract a range of wildlife.
Living in the mid-west of the USA, I was intrigued to see what plant plus wildife combos I could experiment with. I am squarely in zone 5 and was pleased to see from the list of plants that most would attract a range of wildlife, although sadly Indiana is not suitable for growing the poached egg plant (limnanthes douglasii) which thrives further south.
This book will greatly appeal to those who are interested in encouraging (and discouraging) certain kinds of insects, amphibians and birds to their gardens. While the advice suggests postponing deadheading and trimming spent flowers till a little later in the season (to encourage the wildlife to drink the remaining nectar) the trade-off in doing so is to provide wildlife with both food and a place to hibernate over winter without disruption. What better form of altruism. This book provides a different way of thinking about flaura and fauna, especially if you are curious about attracting wildlife to your garden.
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Attracting Wildlife To Your Garden
Michael Chinery
Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK
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ASIN: 0007154569 |
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With the help of this practical and inspiring book, you can create not only a fascinating mini nature reserve but also a vibrant and attractive garden. It shows how to introduce wildlife-friendly features and design your own miniature conservation area, and how to attract and care for mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and invertebrates.
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Attracting Wildlife to Your Garden (Lothian Australian Garden)
Rodger Elliot
Manufacturer: Lothian Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0850916283 |
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Your Backyard Wildlife Garden: How to Attract and Identify Wildlife in Your Yard
Marcus Schneck
Manufacturer: Rodale Pr
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ASIN: 0875961290 |
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
---- SEX, SUN, SAND, SEA AND SAILING on the high-seas as three women and one man sail from Tonga in the Paciic to Italy, inthe Med.
---Alan Richards -- a burn-out-- sets out to sail around the world alone and ends up with an all-woman crew.
---Four strangers running from their pasts meet on a South Pacific island.
--All have come half-way around the world running away from serious problems at home.
---ALONE -- THEY'RE IN TROUBLE. ---TOGETHER -- THEY'RE SURVIVORS
---Four strangers meet up and live together in a small ocean-going sailing yacht. They came together for a three-day sail to Fiji and ended up spending a year together -- sailing from Tonga in the Pacific to Italy.
--They faced hurricanes near Australia and pirates in Indonesia, but their greatest challenge was in overcoming the life-problems that drove them half-way around the world.
---They discovered THE FIVE S's --- SEX, SUN, SAND, SEA AND SAILING.
---In time, the women decided to share the only guy around--Alan.
Customer Reviews:
Waiting for the sequel!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-02-25
Great book, couldn't put it down. Read it all in one sitting. Enjoyed the story and the discription of the places they traveled and their adventures. I felt I was right there with them. Makes me want to quit my job, get on my sailboat and take off. Found no problem with the way it was written, seemed honest and accurate. There must be a sequel or two, would love to find out what happened the next six months and what they are all doing now. Are you listening Alan??
My Life " I Wished".......2007-01-26
Great story, hard to imagine they survived some of the things they went thru. Read it in record time. Just wished it hadn't of ended.
I see where he settled in the Caribbean where he lives and writes.
What is he writing now? Anyone know let me know.
Worth the money to me
ENVY.......2005-04-05
This former real estate broker decided to sail away after his long-term marriage ends up in divorce. He makes it to Tonga where he meets up with 3 women who join him onboard his small sailboat. They live through storms, piracy, wonderful anchorages in deserted islands and exotic towns. The reading is very entertaining, the sail advice is not the best (he had only a few months of sailing experience before writing this book), the writing is not the best, but the story of these four souls is great. This is one of those books that are hard to put down and you are sorry they do not go on for another few hundred pages. The limited English can be forgiven as is so entertaining and original. Any male (and many females) that reads Alan's story will have a huge envy attack. It would be great to have a follow up book on what happened afterwards to each character in the book. It would be interesting to read the version of these events by the other participants. It would be reassuring to get confirmation that this story is real (or maybe not, a guy should not be that lucky!) There is no mention if the picture on the cover shows the actual characters. Anyway, it is great reading.
No Stars!.......2004-04-06
If this book were a horse it wouldn't even make good glue. First, the author writes this in the third person which, after fifty or so pages, I finally over came. Then he uses italics and quotation catch phrases over and over and over and over - ad nauseum. There is a hint of the erotic, what with three women and just him. But it becomes apparent very soon that he is as bad a lover as he is a writer.
A complete waste of money and time.
This book reminded me of this joke I heard once...........2004-03-07
When reading this book, I kept thinking of this joke as a possible insight into why the author wrote his book:
This average guy, he finds himself stranded on a desert island with none other than Cindy Crawford. After some time, with no rescue, the average guy and Cindy start an intimate relationship.
Things are going quite well until one day, the guy asks Cindy something strage. The guy asks her if she will dress up like a man, and pretend he is the average guys best friend from back home. Cindy, a little taken back, thinks this is a little odd, but indulges him.
So she dresses up as the guys best friend and they proceed to walk along the secluded beach, Cindy 'playing' her part.
Suddenly, pretending that Cindy is his best friend from back home, the guy turns to her and says, 'Dude, you're never going to guess who I'm having sex with.'
That's what I kept thinking reading this book. Here is this guy, by his own admission nothing spectacular, sailing and carrying on a relationship with three women all at the same time on the same small boat. I've sailed enough to know that relationships develop fast on small boats, and you learn more about people a lot quicker and become closer as well. But here is this gentleman, not only living the sailing dream, but living it with three beautiful women. Is it any surprise he wrote a book about it? Hell, he should write two books.
Beyond that though, on another level, he conveyed how close they all came through their adventures. About the only thing I didn't like about the book, was it didn't tell how it ended and only covered 1/2 of their experience.
Maybe he is writing a second book.
Product Description
Women! Do you want a life of true satisfaction and reward? In this expositional study of Titus 2:3-5, you will discover how to live a life according to God¹s calling and design. Whether you are younger or older, you can fulfill your divine purpose and calling as a woman, wife, mother, and friend. You will enjoy meeting Hannah, Abigail, Lydia, Tabitha, who serve as examples. This book will help you grow and equip you to mentor other women. 232 pages
Book Description
This perennial best-seller is written for Advanced Grammar and Composition or Advanced Composition and Conversation classes. Grammatical explanations are given in English to facilitate comprehension. Numerous excercises help improve oral, written, and vocabulary skills. The contextualized exercises focus on contemporary situations students are likely to encounter. With updated literary and cultural readings,
Repase y Escriba includes an "oral exchange," to make the text more useful when stressing conversation. New sections provide hints on the "art" of writing and rules for punctuation and grammar.
Customer Reviews:
Where are the answers to the exercises??????!!!!!.......2005-09-14
This book is very thorough -- useful for both learning and reference. However, there are no answers for the exercises. When trying to learn the fine points of grammar, feedback on the exercises is essential. What planet are these authors from? I tried to order the answer key from the publisher, but it's only available to instructors in accredited institutions.
Not the best workbook, by far.......2000-11-18
This workbook is only helpful in trying to gain a better understanding of the story at the beginning of the chapters. To have more practice in writing and understanding the language, which is the purpose of a workbook, I would recommend "Advanced Spanish Grammar," ISBN: 0471134481.
The best language book I've ever read.......2000-01-19
I used this text in Mexico for the highest levels taught at the Centro Mexicano Internacional in Morelia, Michoacán. I speak French (five years) and a little German, have taken high school Latin and college-level Greek. I have had LOTS of delightful experiences with languages, including trying to speak Japanese in Japan!
This book is, in my opinion, the best, most comprehensive and best-organized language text I've ever used.
It's not for dabblers, however. To this serious student, it was like a long, long drink of cool water to a thirsty man: constantly delicious and satisfying. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Según mi maestra favorita, ¡una Mexicana! fue el mejor también, nuestro "libro favorito."
A wonderful book to follow grammar classes.......1999-11-10
This excellent textbook brought Spanish "home" for me -- it seemed to link together all the Spanish I'd learned in the past. I highly recommend it!
I liked it but a lot of people I know didn't........1999-08-12
I found the book very helpful. It contains many sayings and 'modismos', how to write a letter in Spanish, and a lot of vocabulary. But my professor wasn't very impressed with it at all, and most of my friends weren't either. I thought the only negative points were a few mistakes in the text and the ridiculous price.
Book Description
This perennial best-seller is written for Advanced Grammar and Composition or Advanced Composition and Conversation classes. Grammatical explanations are given in English to facilitate comprehension. Numerous exercises help improve oral, written, and vocabulary skills. The contextualized exercises focus on contemporary situations students are likely to encounter. With updated literary and cultural readings,
Repase y Escriba includes an "oral exchange," to make the text more useful when stressing conversation. New sections provide hints on the "art" of writing and rules for punctuation and grammar.
Customer Reviews:
Accurate answer key?.......2007-09-30
My Spanish professor (a PhD) disagrees with some of the answers in the answer key. I have no opinion regarding this. Workbook, like most textbooks, is overpriced and unnecessarily revised. Good supplement to the text if one wants extra practice.
Customer Reviews:
Novelty Item.......2007-03-11
This small book is definately a novelty item. It is interesting seeing the image of Wonder Woman evolve from the 1940s through to the 1990s. Some of the preview lines on the covers are hilarious, not to mention some of the villain names, e.g. Paper Man, Egg Fu.
A Handy Guide.......2001-01-24
I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, but I began to appreciate it when I realized what a handy reference tool it was. Bascially, it shows in full color all the WW comic books covers, from No. 1 until the ones out when the book printed. It's fun to see how WW herself has changed through the decades, from mod in the 60's to muscle queen in the 90's. And for comic book collectors, it's a good guide to go by, since knowing what each and every cover looks like is a real help!
A fascinating book to browse through!.......2000-12-04
Even the most serious Wonder Woman collector will find it a daunting task to collect every single comic book Wonder Woman has appeared in. This little folio allows the average fan to see what comics she's appeared in, how her appearance has changed over the last sixty years, and the occasional silly adventures she underwent (there was a brief period where Wonder Woman was depowered and gave up the uniform, only wearing white clothing in the early 70's). It's a lot of fun to flip through the book and let your imagination take over about what could have possibly happened in each comic book since actual copies of the comic book can be difficult to find (this is true for the much older comics - see your local comic shop for current comics being released on a monthly basis). The folio makes a great, inexpensive gift for kids (especially as a stocking stuffer) and fans alike. I actually got one as a wedding present. There are so many images that you will find yourself looking through it time and time again and never tiring of it!
Fun!.......2000-05-03
Collectors will enjoy this little book. It shows the Amazing Amazon over the last 50 years. Not every cover is shown, but the collection does a good job of assembing a representative sampling. And the intorduction is warm, personal, and interesting. Since most people will never get to see the comics these covers come from, it offers an easy chance to see Diana in action. A small book, but big fun!
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