Planting for Butterflies: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Flutter

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Butterflies are brilliant pollinators and add vibrancy and colour to the garden. A summer's day wouldn't be the same without the gentle fluttering of delicate wings. They connect us with living and breathing nature and are an essential part of a dynamic ecosystem. However, in the past forty years, these insects, which were once a common sight in our gardens, are now in decline thanks to habit loss, climate change and the use of pesticides.

But do not despair there is a lot you can do to help improve their numbers!Planting for Butterflieswillshow you how you can attract these beautiful insects and help them to flourish bycreating a butterfly-friendly garden.No matter how small or large your space from a window ledge in the city to a country garden Jane Moore offers advice on the nectar-rich blooms to grow, and when and where to plant them.

This charmingly illustrated, practical guide will set your garden a flutter.

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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 Janes 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.