The bumblebee flies anyway, a year of gardening and (wild) life, Kate Bradbury
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The bumblebee flies anyway, a year of gardening and (wild) life, Kate Bradbury
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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portraitsmaps
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The bumblebee flies anyway
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bibliography
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1044757011
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Kate Bradbury
Sub title
a year of gardening and (wild) life
Summary
"Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space. On her own she unscrews, saws, and hammers the decking away, she clears the builders' rubble and rubbish beneath it, and she digs and enriches the soil, gradually planting it up with plants she knows will attract wildlife. She erects bird boxes and bee hotels, hangs feeders and grows nectar- and pollen-rich plants, and slowly brings life back to the garden. But while she's doing this her neighbors continue to pave and deck their gardens. The wildlife she tries to save is further threatened, and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle. Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? Throughout her story, Kate draws on an eclectic and eccentric cast of friends and colleagues, who donate plants and a greenhouse, tolerate her gawping at butterflies at Gay Pride, and accompany her on trips to visit rare bumblebees and nightingales"--Provided by Amazon.com
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- Gardening to attract wildlife -- Great Britain
- Animal-plant relationships -- United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Personal Memoirs
- Garden animals
- GARDENING + Essays
- Native plants for cultivation -- United States
- Butterfly attracting
- Bees + Habitat
- Insect-plant relationships -- United States
- Natural landscaping -- United States
- Gardening to attract birds
- NATURE + Animals + Wildlife
- Butterfly gardening
- Bird attracting
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- Creator1
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- Gardening to attract wildlife -- Great Britain
- Animal-plant relationships -- United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Personal Memoirs
- Garden animals
- GARDENING + Essays
- Native plants for cultivation -- United States
- Butterfly attracting
- Bees + Habitat
- Insect-plant relationships -- United States
- Natural landscaping -- United States
- Gardening to attract birds
- NATURE + Animals + Wildlife
- Butterfly gardening
- Bird attracting
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1