Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants: How to Attract and Identify Butterflies

by Christopher Kline

Overview

• Fun how-to guide for attracting butterflies with native plants
• Includes more than 150 color photographs
• Suitable for kids and adults 

Have you ever wanted to draw butterflies to your home, but you haven’t known where to start? This book will help you! Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants is much more than a book filled with beautiful photographs. It brings the butterfly’s perspective to the reader. Living in nature is getting more and more difficult around the planet for butterflies. This makes manmade habitats, filled with native plants, much more important. 

Butterfly expert Christopher Kline explains how to use native plants and draw butterflies to your home landscape. He discusses butterfly gardening basics, common butterflies int he garden, garden designs, guide to host plants, native nectar, and sources for native plants. Many detailed illustrations on garden layout will make building your own garden much easier. This guide also makes it easy to pick plants that attract different butterfly species. Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who wants to draw butterflies to their home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632209306
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	04/07/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	18 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Christopher Kline has studied butterflies throughout the United States since 1997. He is the founder of the Southwest Monarch Study and is a co-founder of the Central Arizona Butterfly Association. He has tagged literally thousands of monarchs in his career, and his current life list includes over 300 species of butterflies. Kline is currently the Butterfly Specialist at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches about the science and enjoyment of butterfly gardening. He resides in Sugar Grove, Ohio.
Christopher Kline has studied butterflies throughout the United States since 1997. He is the founder of the Southwest Monarch Study and is a co-founder of the Central Arizona Butterfly Association. He has tagged literally thousands of monarchs in his career, and his current life list includes over 300 species of butterflies. Kline is currently the Butterfly Specialist at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches about the science and enjoyment of butterfly gardening. He resides in Sugar Grove, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 How to Use This Book 1

Chapter 2 Butterfly Gardening Basics 7

Chapter 3 garden Design Basics 21

Chapter 4 Common Butterflies in the Garden 33

Chapter 5 Native Nectar 77

Chapter 6 Gardener's Guide to Host Plants 105

Index 123

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2016
Kline (Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Columbus, OH) includes helpful information on native grasses, which are often overlooked by butterfly gardeners.

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