Beautiful color photographs of different kinds of gardens and the many kinds of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates that can be attracted to them are generously displayed throughout the informative text.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for creating your own wildlife habitat,
This review is from: Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife (Paperback)
A wildscape teaches you and your family about the symbiosis of life. It's like creating a miniature world in your own yard, and it's amazing how much wildlife you can attract and enjoy. This book is full of color pictures, two of which are of my own wildscape. It describes how to provide the three basic requirements of food, cover and water. It has 239 pages of tables that tell about various wildlife species including birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and the key ingredient, wildflowers and native plants. The book describes ten ecological regions in Texas, and the tables indicate the kinds of wildlife you can expect in each region. Creating a wildscape is much easier than it appears. By using native plants, you avoid many of the problems and work of traditional gardening. I enjoy my own wildscape immensely, and I highly recommend this book and creating a one of your own.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
There's lots of good information in this book, but....,
By Andrew Donnelly (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife (Paperback)
This is one of three or four books that I bought to use to build up my Texas gardening knowledge and help me creat a wildscape in my garden. The book is loaded with great information, and would be very useful in helping me learn and plan, except for one small detail. THERE IS NO INDEX! Nothing. Every other plant and bird book I have has an index, this is a very basic thing to include in this type of book. There is a fantastic ~175 page table on native Texas plants. Is there an index to it? No. Are they arranged in some type of alphabetic order? No. They are arranged somewhat by type, ie. tree-shrub-flower, but nowhere does it even say how it is organized. If you want information on Blue Mistflower, Eupatorium coelestinum, you have to go through this huge table page by page looking for it. You have to do this every time you want information on any plant. Do you think you missed the plant you were looking for? You have to go back through it again more carefully. It may not even be there, but you don't know until you search through it. The lack of an index makes this great book, with loads of useful information, virtually useless as a reference. I have other books that I use as plant references, unfortunately they don't have some of the info contained in this book. I still use this book, but it would be SO much better with an index in it, and with an index it would probably be my primary reference and I would give it 5 stars.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Searchable Index Available,
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This review is from: Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife (Paperback)
From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department:
"Those who have purchased the book can obtain a searchable index for the tables by sending an e-mail to nature@tpwd.state.tx.us. If you do not have access to e-mail send a note to: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Wildlife Diversity Program 4200 Smith School Road Austin, TX 78744
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