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How To Grow a Pollinator Garden
A Step-by-Step Plan for Choosing Nectar Plants and Blooming Layers That Draw Bees and Butterflies All Season
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36875196
EAN: 9798191000732
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Zustellung: Mo, 26.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 40.25
Beschreibung
Four bloom layers. Twelve featured plants, three to a layer. Six checks every candidate plant has to pass before it earns a spot in the bed. One season-long feeding system, not another list of pretty flowers bought on a single bright Saturday at the garden center on impulse, then quietly left to fade and flop by August. This book builds a pollinator garden the way bees and butterflies actually experience it, one overlapping bloom window at a time, so a bed that peaks once in July and sits empty the rest of the year never happens in the first place. Every plant earns its spot through a six-point test grounded in real flower biology, never through whatever a nursery tag or a marketing label happens to claim on the front of the pot at the nursery bench. Twelve Plants, Four Seasons. Match sun, soil, and hardiness zone to a candidate plant before it ever reaches your cart or your seed order this year. Build a spring layer that feeds a hungry queen bumblebee before her fat reserves from last autumn run out completely. Close the June gap with bee balm, coneflower, and foxglove beardtongue blooming in overlapping succession together. Plant milkweed correctly so monarch caterpillars have a true host plant to eat, not just another nectar stop nearby. Carry nectar past the first frost with New England aster, goldenrod, and autumn stonecrop still holding bloom for weeks. Read a nursery tag for real bloom timing instead of trusting a greenhouse-forced estimate from a distant climate zone. Space every drift by each plant's own mature spread so a forager finds a real meal in one stop, not a scavenger hunt across a bare bed. >Beyond The Bloom Itself. Build a shallow water dish and a bare, unmulched soil patch for the ground-nesting native bees most gardens overlook entirely. Leave hollow stems and seed heads standing through winter without the bed losing its tidy, cared-for look through the cold. Convert a plain foundation bed into a genuine drift planting for pollinators without removing a single existing shrub. Adapt every technique in this book to a balcony, a rented courtyard, or three raised beds set against a garden fence. Divide an established clump every few years into spare plants worth sharing with a neighbour building their own bed nearby. >A queen bumblebee is already searching for a bed like this one somewhere nearby this very spring. Plant the spring layer first and let her find it.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jesse Nguyen
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 112