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| Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens | 
| Author: Douglas Tallamy
Publisher: Timber Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 3393
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0881928542
Dewey Decimal Number: 639.92091733
EAN: 9780881928549
ASIN: 0881928542
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
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A Must Read May 12, 2008
We've been avid gardeners for decades and have done many things to attract wildlife to our 10 acre woodlot where we reside. This book is a real eye-opener. It's scientific but easy on the mind. It's thorough and informative, yet casual in its prose. Dr. Tallamy has made a terrific contribution to anyone who values their property, enjoys healthy diversity in their landscape, and wants to do right by the planet. Don't go to your local nursery before reading this book. Mention this to all your friends who share your outdoor interests and talk to your local librarian to be certain he/she obtains a copy for your community.
Great book to create a native garden for your area May 9, 2008
Book is a great asset for anyone wanting to utilize plants which are native to where you live--so naturally they fare better. Most of our Master Gardeners in our area have purchased this reference book
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Supplies the missing link May 4, 2008
This book finally supplied the missing link for those of us committed to promoting the vitally important reintroduction of native plant materials into our landscapes. We've said habitat is important. We know "they" will come if we plant. Tallamy's book gives us the scientific story that links the two. Bravo!!
More, please! April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree entirely with all the favorable reviews of this book and recommend it highly. Looking at plants from an insect-and-bird-eye view puts them in a new perspective.
I have just gone around my own small garden and have tried to identify the continents-of-origin of most of the perennials in it so that I can choose which to replace. It is shocking how many are not native. Since Dr. Tallamy's recommendations only cover the Mid-Atlantic states, not those farther north, what we need here in New England is information about suitable native plants for our area. If anyone can fill this gap, it will be most appreciated.
Very Important Book! April 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In my opinion, "Bringing Nature Home" is one of the most important books of the decade and should be a candidate for a prize. I have not seen the perspective provided by the author in any other books or articles to date except in vague, arm-waving ways. The book clearly identifies the issues, provides data to back up the opinions, and makes logical recommendations on how to integrate the concepts in your own garden. It is also clear that the actions generally won't have additional costs, it is merely a matter of choosing between two approximately equally priced alternatives.
As someone who has battled invasives in my garden, I can attest to how monocultural an area can become. I think loss of biodiversity is likely to be a much larger issue than global warming over the next 100 years. Without biodiversity, it is likely that the natural and agricultural ecologies will likely collapse. Eliminating alien invasives and reintroducing species to enhance biodiversity is something individuals can do that will have significant impacts since the issue has to be tackled on a locale by locale basis.
We aren't going to be able to do much about global warming on a personal basis since the entire planet's population is going to want to improve their lifestyle which will inevitably result in burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests, much like the history of the United States over the last 200 years. However, maintaining the biodiversity in our own backyard on our own continent IS something that we can do independent of the rest of the world.
This book brings a different focus on the term "good for wildlife" in all of the nursery catalogs. The real revolution will come when the catalogs clearly identify regions of origin and whether or not the plants will support insect populations without significant aesthetic loss. This book may be the one to kick-start that whole process of revolutionizing the nursery trade.
By the way, I do have some "aliens" that I don't plan on giving up but having a garden that is 90% natives instead of 90% non-natives and avoiding plants identified as potentially invasive should make a big difference if it can be repeated across subdivisions. I suspect that research will end up identifying some "aliens" to be acceptable based on the types of criteria that Dr. Tallamy is proposing. Dr. Tallamy points out in his book that there is a paucity of hard data to get into a plant by plant evaluation at this time, but I suspect that the research will come over time.
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