Kate Bradbury Bücher

Das Wunderbare an unseren Gärten ist, dass es dort immer und überall wild lebende Kreaturen – Tiere wie Pflanzen – gibt. Überall finden sich irgendwann Insekten, Vögel und gelegentlich auch kleine Säugetiere ein. Aber warum nicht auch aktiv und gezielt Lebensräume für heimische Tierund Pflanzenarten schaffen, in denen diese Nahrung, Wasser, Schutz und Behausung finden? Wenn wir Tiere aus Wald und Wiese locken, vor allem mit heimischen Pflanzen, leisten wir einen Beitrag zur Erhaltung einheimischer Artenvielfalt und lernen damit mehr über die faszinierende natürliche Pflanzen- und Tierwelt vor unserer Haustüre. Beiläufig kommen wir damit in den Vorzug biologischer Schädlingsbekämpfung, der Bestäubung unserer Pflanzen und eines gesünderen Bodens (und damit auch gesünderer Pflanzen). Mit der Natur zu leben und sie zu pflegen, war lange Teil unserer Identität und ist vor allem Verantwortung gegenüber kommenden Generationen – und nicht zu vergessen ein großer Spaß für unsere Kinder, bei dem sie intensive und nachhaltige Beziehungen zur Umwelt aufbauen können.

An easy-to-follow gardening guide endorsed by the Wildlife Trusts and the RHS to help you encourage different types of wildlife into your garden.Wildlife Gardening for Everyone (and Everything) is a useful and easy-to-follow gardening guide with a strong focus on the different types of wildlife you can attract to your garden. The book breaks down by accessible groups of species, and each chapter explains what they require to thrive, what their role in the garden is and how they contribute to the garden ecosystem.The first chapters begin with the favorites that all gardeners know and love, such as the pollinators, birds and amphibians. Later sections of the book explore species that are more likely to be overlooked, including the wasps, flies and spiders, explaining the crucial role they play and how to provide for them.Every chapter will include wide-ranging suggestions of useful plants and projects that will be relevant to all, regardless of the size of their available space, ranging from an urban balcony or patio to a community or large garden. You will be encouraged not only to create but also to relax and observe the habitats in your garden through the year. Ultimately, this is a book about creating a space that's as much for you as it is for the other species you welcome into it, and about getting to know the wildlife around you.

This is a practical guide to different types of wildlife-friendly garden ponds, along with the creatures that visit and the plants that thrive there. The best way to attract wildlife to your garden is to build a pond. If you want to do your bit to support local biodiversity, pick up a spade and start digging. This book makes it easy to attract and support a huge array of species, with fully illustrated step-by-steps showing you how to plan, dig, line, and fill a simple wildlife pond, alongside alternatives including container ponds and more formal designs. Discover the best mix of plants you'll need to keep your pond thriving, how to make sure that creatures can enter and exit the water safely, and the little extra touches that can attract and support all kinds of wildlife. Once your pond is ready, sit back and watch nature do its work as the book reveals the creatures that will visit: the blackbird that bathes in the shallows; the wriggling tadpoles that bring the water to life; the bat that soars above the pond at nightfall to feast on rising insects. Every garden should have a pond, and with Kate's help, you'll have everything you need to create a pond that will teem with life for years to come

The perfect gardening guide for green thumbs and wildlife lovers alike, with tips on how to help the environment.

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space. On her own she unscrews, saws and hammers the decking away, she clears the builders' rubble and rubbish beneath it, and she digs and enriches the soil, gradually planting it up with plants she knows will attract wildlife. She erects bird boxes and bee hotels, hangs feeders and grows nectar- and pollen-rich plants, and slowly brings life back to the garden

One tree, in one garden. Can it really make a difference? In RHS The Tree in My Garden, award-winning wildlife author Kate Bradbury reveals the amazing effect planting a single tree in your garden can have - and dares to imagine what would happen if every gardener up and down the country did the same. Combining practical gardening advice, eye-opening scientific research, reflections on the cultural importance of different species, and evocative accounts of how vital trees are for countless different forms of wildlife, this book will leave you in no doubt that every garden needs a tree. The book features a directory of 50 key species, each one beautifully illustrated by Lucille Clerc and packed with information about each tree's appearance, care needs, carbon sequestration ability, and the wildlife it supports. No garden should be without a tree. Plant one, watch it grow - and become part of something bigger.

Five years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury reveals how her new garden and her climate-change anxiety push her to look for positive ways to keep going in a changing world..