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"DescriptionAn inspiring and practical guide to creating beautiful habitat gardens full of lifeA Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee provides all the information gardeners need to take action to support and protect pollinators, by creating habitat in yards and community spaces, on balconies and boulevards, everywhere!\nWith more than 300 native plants of Ontario and the Great Lakes region proﬁled in detail, along with sample garden designs, ideas for beautiful plant pairings and numerous tips for success, this fully-illustrated guide helps gardeners discover the crucial connections between native plants and native pollinators, and learn how to cultivate patches of pollinator paradise.  \"What a valuable, comprehensive, timely, and beautiful resource! Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla provide the rationale, urgency, and detailed know-how for restoring essential pollinator habitats, not only for the rusty-patched bumblebee, but for all of Ontario’s pollinators. Just a fantastic contribution!\"–Douglas Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home\"Combining the extensive knowledge of a renowned author and bee researcher, this engaging and accessible book showcases multiple ways to enhance or convert a garden into a thriving habitat for wild bees. This book has it all—sample garden plans, beautiful illustrations and photographs, a comprehensive section profiling native plants and the specific pollinators the plants support, answers to common pollinator gardening questions, and a discussion about the critical link between native plants and pollinators. With its broad appeal, Ontario gardeners will treasure this extremely informative book.\"–Heather Holm, Pollinator Conservationist and author of Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide\"Johnson and Colla bring us a glorious manifesto about gardening for bumblebees, and other pollinators. Profusely illustrated, it highlights dozens of pollinator-worthy flowering plants for home and community gardens. An encyclopedic but highly accessible book that belongs with every gardener and naturalist.\"–Stephen Buchmann, author of The Reason for Flowers\"This book is beautifully written, wonderfully illustrated, and essential reading for any gardener interested in supporting pollinators and the ecosystems in which they find themselves. Seldom is there a reference that is so delightful to peruse. It gives even a beginning naturalist a sense of hope, a feeling that even a simple gardener can do something both meaningful and beautiful for their gardens, for their garden’s pollinators, and ultimately, for their whole community.\"–Olivia Messinger Carril, co-author of The Bees in Your Backyard\"Saving the bees requires planting native plants, lots of native plants! This gardening book distills critical information about wild, native bees while offering abundant detail, photos, planting guides and references for gardeners. It’s a book I highly recommend for planting season and for the dreaming season, too, in winter.\"–Beatrice Olivastri, CEO, Friends of the Earth Canada\"A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee is a call to action from Johnson and Colla that will inspire you to look, think, and act differently in your garden. You’ll get a primer on pollinators and learn why native plants matter. They’ll walk you through the simple steps of turning lawns into gardens or an existing garden into a pollinator paradise. Even urban and balcony gardeners will discover how to make a difference in the smallest of spaces.\"–Niki Jabbour, author of Groundbreaking Food Gardens and The Year-Round Vegetable GardenerDetails Douglas &amp; McIntyreISBN: 9781771623230Paperback / softback7.9 in x 9.2 in - 256 ppPublication Date: 11/06/2022BISAC Subject(s): NAT017000-NATURE / Animals / Insects &amp; Spiders,GAR019010-GARDENING / Regional / Canada,TEC003100-TECHNOLOGY &amp; ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Beekeeping  "
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