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Book cover of Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

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Nancy J. Hayden

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This book is a deep dive into the importance of planting native species for creating healthy, biodiverse ecosystems at a time when global biodiversity is declining. Suburban lawns and home gardens featuring nonnative ornamentals are ecological wastelands. I was fascinated by the idea that increasing native plants in backyards could turn whole neighbors into wild ecological zones with more bees, butterflies, birds, and wildlife species.

I learned so much about how alien ornamental species do not provide the food and habitat resources needed by important native insects (the little things that run the world). Insects are the food source for…

From Nancy's list on The best books to inspire action to enhance biodiversity of beneficial organisms on farms and in gardens.