As native plants and birds and other animals that depend upon them gradually decline in number as their chosen habitats disappear, many of them have begun to live on the edge of survival. What they need are more places where they are welcome and can prosper. Home gardens can be those places when transformed into what could be called a heritage habitat garden. A description of the specifics of that garden style and of the garden methods that have proved to help gardeners introduce native plants into their gardens is the primary focus of A Garden on the Edge.