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Bringing Nature Home

How You Can Sustain Wildlife With Native Plants
Feb 06, 2015JLMason rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Highly recommended! This book explains why it is so important to plant native species in our gardens, and not alien, imported cultivars. Native species are more nutritious and chemically suited to feeding native insects, which in turn feed birds, reptiles, frogs, and then up the food chain. Most insects cannot eat alien plants and hence the biodiversity in the suburban garden is lost. Although written for the author's location in the mid-Atlantic states, most of the plant examples are relevant to eastern Ontario. There are extensive tables in the appendices showing which native plants attract/feed which insects and their larvae - butterflies, moths, etc.