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The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators Paperback – Illustrated, January 7, 2020

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Give pollinators a fighting chance! Transform your landscape into a breathtaking pollinator paradise with the practical solutions in this New York Times–featured guide.
 
The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. In The Pollinator Victory Garden, environmental horticulturalist, landscape designer, and New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden teacher Kim Eierman offers accessible, actionable information and tips for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals.

Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals. Beetles, bats, birds, butterflies, moths, flies, and wasps can be pollinators.

But, many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators.

With The Pollinator Victory Garden, learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming.
 
Perfect for beginner to intermediate gardeners, this guide offers a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you:
 
  • The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival
  • How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession
  • Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one
  • Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals
  • Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendly lawn alternatives
  • A Pollinator Victory Garden checklist to help you plan and implement the steps needed to have a thriving pollinator garden
  • Plant lists of native tree and shrub species organized by pollinator type and bloom time
 
The time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipal landscape can help to win the war against pollinator decline with The Pollinator Victory Garden.
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The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening

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Introduction

Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. But many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them. I wrote this book to help you change that. You can create a beautiful landscape that attracts and supports many different species of pollinators.

Essentials of Pollinators and Pollination

Pollination is something we take for granted, but it’s essential to life on Earth. It is the means by which most flowering plants reproduce. As you’ll recall from biology class, pollination involves the physical movement of pollen from the male part of a plant to the female part of a plant. Without pollination, a plant can’t be fertilized so that seeds can form.

Providing Pollinators with a Place to Live

Habitat is a term that frequently appears when pollinators are being discussed. But what is habitat? Simply put, habitat is the natural environment where an organism, in this case a pollinator, lives, and where it can find the resources it needs: food, shelter, resting places, and safe places to mate and reproduce. Habitat includes more than flowers.

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Providing Pollinators with Food to Eat

Habitat consists of a place for pollinators to live as well as a place for them to eat and get the nutrition they need to flourish. These habitats may be the same, can be overlapping, or may be more disconnected as is the case for honey bees, which will fly several miles, if necessary, to obtain food. In managed landscapes, the place to live and the place to eat (both habitats) should overlap and are equally important. In most cases, you can provide pollinators with both a place to live and a place to eat in the same general area.

Parade of Pollinators

Animals that pollinate flowers include creatures that are very familiar, such as bumble bees and honey bees, as well as less obvious animals. There are pollinating beetles, bats, butterflies, moths, lizards, rodents, lemurs, honey possums, and even monkeys. Not every species within a group of animals is a pollinator. Approximately 9 percent of all birds and mammals on Earth are pollinators. One of the most unusual mammal pollinators is the lemur, which is the largest pollinator in the world.

Creating and Growing a Pollinator Victory Garden

A Pollinator Victory Garden can take many forms. The size and conditions of your landscape, your available time, and your budget will be the major factors determining the type of garden you create. If you have an existing flower garden, you might start simply by tweaking that space to include more pollinator plants and nesting habitat. But if you want to really devote your landscape to supporting pollinators, more detailed updates may be in order.

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“The Pollinator Victory Garden is a book for these times.  Kim Eierman empowers readers with ideas, direction and the inspiration they need to create beautiful and eco-friendly habitats for many different pollinators.  Creating healthy, diverse and chemical free habitats are essential steps in solving pollinator decline and The Pollinator Victory Garden guides you towards creating your own lovely garden habitat.” - Peter Nelson, Director of The Pollinators, filmmaker and beekeeper

"With The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman you can give pollinators a fighting chance. Provides a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment."
  - Green Profit

Read this book as if your life depended on it—and it does: No pollinators = no plants = no people. Kim Eierman turns the table on the dismaying facts about pollinators by offering positive steps each of us can take to make a difference. Her passion shouts: “gimme a V…”—or, more aptly “gimme a Bee.”  - Carol Capobianco, Director, The Native Plant Center

“If everyone followed Kim Eierman’s advice, our pollinator crisis would be solved. Her detailed, compassionate book provides actionable steps for helping not only much-loved garden visitors like butterflies and bees but also the less appreciated beetles, flies and other pollinating creatures. Her well-written, beautifully illustrated book is a call to action: if creating a victory food garden for humans was a patriotic act during World War II, then creating a victory garden for pollinators is an equally important citizen duty today.” - Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener, Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife

"...packed with useful information, charts, diagrams, and gorgeous photos." - Dear Author

"...provides all the advice and information you'll need to get started on your own pollinator project." - Connecticut Gardener

"It’s a well written, well laid out book with lots of tips to help even a first time gardener. It’s a book anyone who wants to help should have in their library." - Broken Teepee

"Leave it to Kim Eierman to come up with a unique call to action - one that worked in the past when our society was threatened by war, and one that will work again to defeat the very real threat of pollinator declines. Kim has thought of everything with a truly comprehensive guide to improving the lot of our pollinators at home. Make a Pollinator Victory Garden and join the effort to save our most essential creatures!" - Dr. Douglas Tallamy, author of Bringing Home Nature and Nature's Best Hope

"This book provides an in-depth education of how pollination works and what pollinators need to thrive, and then translates that information into actionable steps to take in the garden." - Horticulture Magazine

“With so many pollinator species at risk around the globe, The Pollinator Victory Garden could not be more timely. Please put this thoughtful, easy-to-read book to use in making your own yard a haven for pollinators.” - Phyllis Stiles, Founder, Bee CIty USA

“God knows pollinators need every edge we can give them--and this book will tell you precisely how to use your patch of land, however small, to make a real difference!” - Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist and co-founder, 350.org

About the Author

Kim Eierman is an environmental horticulturist and landscape designer specializing in ecological landscapes and native plants. She is the Founder of EcoBeneficial, a horticulture consulting and communications company in Westchester County, New York. Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center, Rutgers Home Gardeners School, and advanced education classes for Master Gardeners. An active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscaping topics, she also provides horticultural consulting and ecological design to commercial, municipal, and retail clients.

In addition to being a Certified Horticulturist through the American Society for Horticultural Science, Kim is an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional, a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center, and a member of The Ecological Landscape Alliance and the Association for Garden Communicators (GWA). Kim received the Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association in 2014, 2015, and 2017.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books; Illustrated edition (January 7, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1631597507
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1631597503
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.65 x 9.9 inches
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Kim Eierman is an ecological landscape designer and environmental horticulturist, specializing in ecological landscapes and native plants. She is the Founder of EcoBeneficial, a horticulture consulting and communications company in Westchester County, New York. Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center, Rutgers Home Gardeners School, and advanced education classes for Master Gardeners. An active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscaping topics, she also provides horticultural consulting and ecological design to commercial, municipal and retail clients.

In addition to being a Certified Horticulturist through the American Society for Horticultural Science, Kim is an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional, a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center, and a member of The Ecological Landscape Alliance and the Association for Garden Communicators (GWA). Kim received the Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic overview—clear, well organized, and well written.
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This book was perfect for me. It is the first book I read on this subject, and now I am very motivated to start my pollinator garden with native plants. I am pretty experienced at gardening, but these instructions for creating a ecologically sound garden introduced me to approaches that I had thought little about, especially making homes for pollinators in the winter, food and shelter for insect larvae, etc. I needed such a good, sound book, which still covers a lot. I think that you could create a great pollinator garden after just reading this book. The book is very well organized and the writing is crisp. It has lots of great examples, and great pics. I ordered it for my Kindle reader on my iPad, and it is much easier to read than many gardening books, which often try to stuff too much on each Kindle page. It looks as if they put a lot of thought into making this readable on the Kindle. I am going to lobby fellow gardeners in our neighborhood to create a corridor of pollinator garden. Before reading this book, one thing I knew, but did not think much about, is that without pollinators we won’t have much food. I know that is obvious, but I can get pretty caught up in day-to-day life and feel that issues impacting ecology and climate are overwhelming. Sometimes I feel that there is little I can do about it. This book gives me a way to do something to help the earth that is doable and will accomplish something that is tangible.
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5.0 out of 5 stars How to Create a Pollinator Friendly Garden
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020
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Kim Eierman, a noted horticulturalist and landscape designer, shows how individual gardeners can create pollinator pathways that can combat pollinator decline. This book is a clear and detailed guide to creating a garden that’s friendly to all kinds of pollinators, from bees to beetles to bats. She writes about the habitats that are necessary to these pollinators as they forage for nectar and pollen, lay their eggs and grow as larvae, and she gives practical guidance for creating plantings that bloom throughout the spring, summer and fall, so that different pollinators will have what they need, and she suggests gardening practices that create places for insects to overwinter.
The Pollinator Victory Garden is a thoughtful, accessible guide that’s easy to read and carefully designed. Anyone who wants to understand how he or she can help create a pollinator-friendly garden will soon find that this book shows you the way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best garden introduction ever!
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Although I have been gardening for enjoyment for many years, I recently decided to step up to change my hobby to one of purpose as the number of bees and birds have been decimated in the last few decades. This book is not just an accessible guide to pollinator gardens, but a great guideline for gardening in general. I wish that this had been one of my first gardening books as it would have saved me many mistakes. The guidelines are clearly outlined, good plant and activity lists are presented and a beginning 'get started' checklist is included. I highly recommend this easy and useful read.
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Kathleen San Martino
4.0 out of 5 stars Provides a basic head start in designing a pollinator garden; has one glaring mistake
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2020
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I enjoyed reading this thin book from cover to cover. This is a basic guide that lists the fact that there are different types of pollinators from mason bees, bumblebees, hummingbirds, moths, bettles, bats, etc. It explains the importance of habitat variety and the value in planting a succession of blooming plants throughout one's landscape. The idea is to provide food, nesting areas, and water for a variety of pollinators without using any pesticides and by reducing lawn space.

This book is not a how to guide on setting up the landscape but a basic guide on what one might consider in setting up that landscape. The appendix in the back has a list of plants. It is always best to buy the plant using the latin name to ensure it is native and not a hybrid plant that is nutritionally poor or a nutritional zero.

The one glaring error in the book that was not caught by the proofreader is on Page 88. It says to make hummingbird nectar the standard formula is "one part water to four parts sugar." That is NOT TRUE; in fact, it is the reverse. It should be one part sugar to four parts water which means one has to dissolve 1/4 cup of sugar to every cup of boiling water and let it cool completely before putting it in the feeder.

In summary, this guide is a good basic start on how to create a pollinator's habitat that includes a smorgasbord of plants, nesting areas, and water all without pesticides. After reading this, it is clear that additional reading will be necessary elsewhere.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interdependence of Human and Environmental Needs
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In this age of global insecurity it is refreshing to find a book that so clearly describes the interdependence of human needs with those of nature - specifically pollinators. I, for one, did not realize that the majority of flowering plants and a significant percent of crops are dependent on what many birds, bees, butterflies, moths, and in some cases, bats, (yes, bats!) are doing in our gardens.

In a very readable, manner, the author outlines the problem and explains what we can do about it, including offering tips for providing shelter and nesting areas, as well as food and water for our pollinators. The book also focuses on the importance of native plants and the unimportance of lawns. It offers comprehensive plants lists, is beautifully illustrated and highly recommended for those interested in gardens and gardening as well as ecology. `
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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical tips to helping pollinators in our own personal environment
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2020
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This book provides a wonderful overview of the importance of pollinators and how to transform our own personal gardens and yards into a beneficial part of the larger ecosystem around us. Through beautiful photography and writing that is approachable, succinct and instructive, Kim provides a nice overview of pollinators, opening one's mind to the role birds, bats, beetles, wasps, flies, and the diverse population of bees (its not about the honeybees) play in the garden and how to help them survive. The book contains very practical lists of what to plant and how. If there was one book to buy to help those interested in transforming the ecology of their suburban yards, its this one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars best West Coast gardening book for pollinator gardening!
Reviewed in Canada on March 31, 2021
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This book inspires pollinator gardening. Beautiful pictures and clear advice for planting for beneficial insects, bees and butterflies. Planting schemes stressing native plants. West Coast.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2020
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I hope an equally good one comes out for the native flowers and native pollinators of the UK. Very lucky USA and Canada.
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4.0 out of 5 stars This is for US gardeners not British
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2020
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This book is beautiful. But it is a book written by an American. For Americans. In America. Afraid none of the sections referring to hummingbird feeders or bats in Arizona is going to be of much use to me. Not sure why this book is for sale in the UK. It doesnt mention this anywhere in the Amazon summary section. As I said lovely book but not as useful for a British gardener as a US one. I will be returning mine.
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