No Nettles Required - Hardcover

Thompson, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903919681 ISBN 13: 9781903919682

Publisher: Eden Project Books, 2006

Synopsis

Encouraging wildlife is entirely compatible with ordinary gardening. This book shows how easy it is to fill our gardens with everything from foxes, frogs and mice, to butterflies, ladybirds and thousands of fascinating creepy-crawlies.

About this title

About the Author:

KEN THOMPSON is a plant ecologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Having been a keen gardener for many years, he has become increasingly interested in the ecology of gardens and the promotion of science to the general public. He writes a regular column on the science of gardening for ORGANIC GARDENING magazine and is author of the equally charming AN EAR TO THE GROUND: GARDEN SCIENCE FOR ORDINARY MORTALS.

Review:

"A well-researched gem. I love it. Buy it and read it." -- Cleve West * The Independent * "BOOK OF THE MONTH...Attractive and highly readable follow-up to his excellent An Ear to the Ground" * The Telegraph, Gardening supplement * "A good read: informative and well-explained." * Bob Flowerdew, Gardener's Question Time * "A cheerful hand grenade of a book...fantastic science writing for a lay audience." * New Scientist * "I finished this book torn between wild feelings of omnipotence and a nagging sense of guilt for poisoning the mice in my garden shed...he guides us around the millions of varieties of insects that most of us either ignore or abhor...even slugs, the gardener's most persistent foe, are given respect." -- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney * Financial Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Eden Project Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1903919681
• ISBN 13: 9781903919682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192