The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and [Paperback]

Give pollinators a fighting chance! Transform your landscape into a breathtaking pollinator paradise with the practical solutions in thisNew York Times–featured guide.
 
The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. InThe Pollinator Victory Garden, environmental horticulturalist, landscape designer, and New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden teacher Kim Eierman offers accessible, actionable information and tips for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals.

Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not justbees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals.Beetles,bats,birds,butterflies,moths,flies, and wasps can be pollinators.

But,many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most ofour landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators.

WithThe Pollinator Victory Garden, learn how totransition your landscape into a pollinator havenby creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming.
 
Perfect for beginner to intermediate gardeners, this guide offers a wealth of information to support pollinatorswhile improving the environment around you:
 

• The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival