Birds & Blooms Gardening for Birds, Butterflies, and Bees: Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Wildlife Habitat in Your Backyard (Birds & Blooms Guide)

I bought this as a gift for my mom, who often observes a variety of birds and other critters on her lake front property. We had discussed setting up some areas in her yard that would help draw birds, butterflies, and ok, even bees to the area. When I found this book, I knew it would be perfect. There are plenty of great ideas in it. So I put together a gift of this book, a hanging plant/bird feeder shepherds hook, and some hummingbird stuff. The book is really beautifully done. Full color pictures, well organized, descriptive and really informative. The way it is designed is just absolutely pleasing.It seems to be a great addition to ones personal library, or even as a coffee table book, given how nice it is to look at.

Even if you don’t intend to plant a garden, this is such a beautiful book with amazing photos! I am in awe of the colorful gorgeous pictures! However, I will definitely be using the information to attract more birds, bees and butterflies to my gardens. It one of the great joys of my life to enjoy nature!

I love the colorful pictures and the book is very informative. I am starting a native garden for pollinators. Most books I found were black and white so I needed colored pictures for reference in matching my plants. Not all the plants in this book are native but that’s ok because one of my beds have non native plants.

This book contains great pictures and lots of varied information for the price. Although the book takes several pages to make a solid point of the need to use native plants for gardening to attract birds, bees and butterflies, it then proceeds to recommend many plants that are not native. One example of their heavy use of cultivars is they list "10 bird friendly coneflowers" but all are solid cultivars with fancy names. Never mentioned are purple coneflower, glade, pale purple or yellow coneflowers all of which are native. Recommended trees and shrubs include boxwood and Arborvitae which many people like myself will surely find native alternatives. But the book does a good job by providing maps for the bird and butterfly species listed and even host plants for the butterflies which I found very helpful as a quick reference. And there are many good tips and specialized sections in the back adding to the quality of the book. I'm sure I will find myself enjoying the wonderful pictures and quantity of information for many days to come.

wonderful book magnificent photography

Everything Awesome! Thank you.

This is a very well illustrated book. Just what I wanted to learn about flowers to grow for bees and butterflies.

it is full of large pics page after page, full color. i can't remember if there are full page pics or not. i do remember there being pictures layered. pages are covered with pictures and some text. it is beautiful! bought this as a gift. she sat amazed flipping through the whole book while i looked on.

I absolutely LOVE this book. Great coloured photos. Great descriptions of plants. Clear identification as to whom the plant attracts. Symbols included for light preference. THIS IS THE GARDENING BOOK TO PURCHASE IF YOU ARE INTO WILDLIFE GARDENING! I am working on creating a butterfly garden that is approximately the size of the football field, and I use this book for my main plant purchasing reference. I have read the book cover to cover almost 5 times and I still find it refreshing and enjoyable. I only wish the book would have listed plant hardiness zones for all the plants instead of just a few.

Great book to research your retirement gardens…

Beautiful pictures and great gardening etc info

Beautiful photos, good info

Excellent book. Amazing pictures. Easy read. Highly recommend.