Planting for Pollinators: Creating a Garden Haven

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Planting for Pollinators is an easy-to-use gardening guide to help you encourage different types of insect pollinators into your garden. Without bees, flies, hoverflies, butterflies, moths and beetles, some of our favourite foods would cease to exist. Insect pollinators are essential to our planet, but they also bring joy to our gardens. Creating a habitat for insect pollinators is easy - you can start on a windowsill, or with some pots on your balcony. Planting for Pollinators features a wide-ranging selection of plants, with gardening advice for all types of outdoor space and seasons. Award-winning wildlife photographer and writer Heather Angel reveals how plants communicate with their pollinators and offers tips on watching foraging insects at work. Planting to encourage insect pollinators is a fantastic first step in creating a wildlife-friendly garden, and this practical new guide illustrated with brilliant original photographs and featuring 100 different plant species, including bulbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs and climbers will help readers to discover first hand the short- and long-term benefits of having a variety of pollinators visit your garden.

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I love this book, it's packed with gorgeous photos and practical advice, featuring my favourite plants and my favourite pollinators. * Kate Bradbury, author of Wildlife Gardening *

Author Bio

Heather Angel is an award-winning wildlife photographer and writer. She has a degree in Zoology, an MA in Marine Ecology and a passion for floral structure and pollination mechanisms. Heather tutors photo workshops, manages her image library Natural Visions and is a prolific writer. Her first book, Nature Photography: Its Art and Techniques, was published in 1972. Heather was President of the Royal Photographic Society and founder chair of the RPS Nature Group. She has been a Visiting Professor at Nottingham University since 1994. Major solo exhibitions of her work have been shown in London, India, China, Malaysia and Egypt.