How To Make A Wildlife Garden - This classic book is widely acknowledged as the definitive work on the subject. This new edition is revised and updated, and includes many lovely colour photographs. A wide variety of habitats is covered - woodland edge, hedgerows, wildflower meadows, ponds and mini-wetlands - each of which will support different types of wild plant and animal life. Packed with information and advice, the author confronts the problems gardeners may face when creating and maintaining habitats with wildlife in mind, as well as celebrating the joys of doing so in gardens large or small.

Wildlife Gardening - An excellent practical handbook with step by step instructions on how to create a wildlife garden. It is packed with detailed information on planning, landscaping, artificial nests and plants and planting.

Creating Small Habitats for Wildlife in Your Garden - This excellent book shows how you can help to let wildlife thrive even in a small area. Nicely designed with lots of colour photographs, it also contains a great deal of practical information. Lists of British native plants and wildlife-friendly plants feature in the sections on different habitats such as woodlands, wetlands, grasslands and rocklands. Aimed at the smaller garden, where many conventional wildlife gardening projects would be impossible, this book is packed with ideas on how to create and maintain a variety of habitats favourable to wildlife, even in the tiniest of gardens or yards.

Wildlife Ponds - Jenny Steel's Gardening With Nature series Create a natural looking pond to attract wildlife to your garden, with information on how to build and maintain the pond, wildflowers for water gardening and pond alternatives.

Making Wildlflower Meadows - If only a tiny patch of each garden were converted into a wildflower meadow, we would ensure the survival of many plants and animals currently threatened with extinction due to modern agricultural practices. Gardener and conservationist Pam Lewis, whose own garden at Sticky Wicket in Dorset has been much featured in the media, specialises in the making and management of wildflower. In this rewarding book she distils her 20 years' experience into an informative and readable text, giving tried and tested practical advice alongside accounts of her experiences in creating and maintaining these valuable habitats. Pam lovingly and entertainingly describes the creation and maintenance of several very different meadows created at Sticky Wicket - a restored meadow; a meadow made as a home for displaced local wildflowers; wet and dry flowering lawns; a tiny mini-meadow; and a garden meadow where a mixture of wildflowers and naturalised garden plants grows in loamy grassland. This excellent book provides a great deal of useful, practical information, and shows just how many different ways there can be of growing wild flowers, in addition to being a thoroughly enjoyable read for anyone charmed by the traditional wildflower meadow.

Meadows and Cornfields - Jenny Steel's Gardening With Nature series A guide to creating and maintaining a wildlife-friendly meadow or cornfield area in a garden, with practical advice and information on choosing seed, ground preparation, sowing, use of plug plants, and how to create a meadow effect in existing grass. Illustrated with colour photographs.

Bird-Friendly Garden - Attract a rich diversity of birds to your garden, large or small, by providing food, shelter and water and protection from predators. This book is packed with practical tips and advice, with colour photographs and nice illustrations. A month-by-month guide covers the birds you are most likely to see and how to attract them. Easy to use plant directory details attractive, gardenworthy trees, shrubs and flowers which also encourage bird life, and shows which plants benefit which birds.

Bats in the Garden - An interesting booklet on where bats roost, how they feed and how you can attract them to your garden.

Butterfly Gardening - Gardening With Nature It is nice to see butterflies in the garden and it could also be a way of conserving many of our native species. This book gives details on how to encourage butterflies to visit and breed in your garden, including information on the plants the adults and larvae like to feed on and on the butterfly life cycle. There are some colour photos showing some of the butterfly species you might expect to see and some of the plants that will make them want to stay around.

Managing Soil Without Using Chemicals - A practical book containing a wealth of detailed information on soil and soil management in the garden. This comprehensive book first looks at what soil is and how it works, describing the creatures which live in soil, life cycles, soil types, typical plants, how to dig and interpret a soil profile, and soil structure. It then describes how to manage the soil using organic matter, green manures, mulches, organic fertilisers and minerals, and a variety of cultivation techniques. This excellent book provides a great deal of interesting information about soil and its cultivation in a friendly, easily-understood style. Well illustrated throughout including clear colour photographs of the different soil types, typical weeds, fertilisers and mulches.