The latest addition to the series of field handbooks Our Nature deals with animal life in our domestic gardens. With the help of beautiful and richly detailed watercolours, and texts packed with information, we can acquaint ourselves with more than o ...
The latest addition to the series of field handbooks Our Nature deals with animal life in our domestic gardens. With the help of beautiful and richly detailed watercolours, and texts packed with information, we can acquaint ourselves with more than one hundred common species that live in flower beds and vegetable plots.
What I find in the garden is thus a perfect complement to the other titles in the Our Nature series of field guides.
An introductory chapter describes how you can ‘tune up’ a food chain to achieve the garden you want, and which methods will provide a richer ecological system – which is often the best way to prevent a mass invasion of ‘vermin’!
Most of the texts are to help you identify a species, but there are also exciting facts and curiosa. We get to learn how the garden ecology works, and read about commonplace food chains that are right outside our front door!
Peter Larsson’s detailed watercolours show not only the particular species, but also larval stages, host plants, nests and eggs.
Peter Larsson is an artist and author specialising in animals and nature. He works mainly in the south of Sweden and has had a regular column about nature in Skånska Dagbladet, the regional newspaper.