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Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Biodiversity: Bringing Nature Home with Native Plants
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March 24, 2008
Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Biodiversity: Bringing Nature Home with Native Plants
Bringing Nature Home
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In Doug Tallamy’s newly acquired suburban landscape, the trees and shrubs were all healthy and handsome, but therein lay the problem. There was little evidence of insect damage and therefore little presence of insects. Thus began Doug’s evaluation of the effect that decades of gardening with non-native ornamentals has had on North America’s biodiversity. What he discovered so disturbed him, he wrote Bringing Nature Home. He believes gardening choices may have gotten us into this mess. Learn how he thinks gardening just might get us out of it.
Following program, a book signing of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens