No Nettles Required by Ken Thompson
In 2003 a MORI poll for the Royal Horticultural Society revealed that an extraordinary number of us are interested in attracting wildlife into our gardens. Because we'll be promoting the biodiversity of the UK, we'll be reconnecting with nature, getting more from our gardens, and we'll be doing our plants a favour.
A well-researched gemI love it. Buy it and read it. -- Cleve West * The Independent *
BOOK OF THE MONTH...Attractive and highly readable follow-up to his excellent An Ear to the Ground * The Telegraph, Gardening supplement *
A good read: informative and well-explained. * Bob Flowerdew, Gardener's Question Time *
A cheerful hand grenade of a book...fantastic science writing for a lay audience. * New Scientist *
I finished this book torn between wild feelings of omnipotence and a nagging sense of guilt for poisoning the mice in my garden shed...he guides us around the millions of varieties of insects that most of us either ignore or abhor...even slugs, the gardener's most persistent foe, are given respect. -- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney * Financial Times *
BOOK OF THE MONTH...Attractive and highly readable follow-up to his excellent An Ear to the Ground * The Telegraph, Gardening supplement *
A good read: informative and well-explained. * Bob Flowerdew, Gardener's Question Time *
A cheerful hand grenade of a book...fantastic science writing for a lay audience. * New Scientist *
I finished this book torn between wild feelings of omnipotence and a nagging sense of guilt for poisoning the mice in my garden shed...he guides us around the millions of varieties of insects that most of us either ignore or abhor...even slugs, the gardener's most persistent foe, are given respect. -- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney * Financial Times *
KEN THOMPSON is a plant ecologist. he is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield where he was a key member of the first of two 'Biodiversity of Urban Gardens' (BUGS) projects investigating the significance of urban gardens as habitats for 'natural' biodiversity.
Ken Thompson has written over 100 articles for scientific journals and writes a regular column on the science of gardening for Organic Gardening magazine. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed An Ear to the Ground: Garden Science for Ordinary Mortals.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905811144 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905811144 |
| Title | No Nettles Required |
| Author | Ken Thompson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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