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Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Wildlife Books				Library Pages Library Introduction Site Map Garden Style Garden Design:- A-G G-H J-T T-W Garden Planting Design:- A-G G-L L-S S-T T-Y Location of Plants:- A-G G-T T-W Plant Association:- A-R T-W Plant Types:- A-H H-S T-T Plant Species:- A-E F-M M-T T-W Gardening:- A-S S-Y Garden Cultivation Propagation Garden Pests Garden Tips Practical Projects:- A-H H-S S-T T-Y Wildlife* Reference Library Miscellaneous Health
Site Map Links Case Studies Companion Planting Garden Construction Garden Design Garden Maintenance Glossary Home Library* Offbeat Glossary Plants Soil Tool Shed Useful Data Topic - Plant Photo Galleries Aquatic Bamboo Bedding Bulb Climber Colour Wheel Conifer Deciduous Shrub Deciduous Tree Evergreen Perennial Evergreen Shrub Evergreen Tree Fern Grass Hedging Herbaceous Perennial Herb Odds and Sods Rhododendron Rose Soft Fruit Top Fruit Vegetable Wild Flower Topic - Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery Butterfly	Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy. In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:- Garden Style - The overall style of the garden — Cottage, Japanese, Feng-Shui, Informal, Formal, Wildlife Friendly etc - dictates which following design and plant books are suitable to use Garden Design - gives design methodologies to follow for the Garden Style chosen. Garden Planting Design gives planting design ideas for the beds of the overall garden design chosen above. Wildlife gives details concerning wildlife that could be found in gardens, their lifestyle and how to encourage them to your garden. Location of Plants shows which plants should be grouped together for its soil, shade, colour for the garden style chosen. Plant Association shows which plant combinations give a pleasing colour combination or foliage contrast. Plant Types gives growing conditions of a particular family of plants, i.e. Primulas, with lists of where suitable and finally Plant Species gives data about a particular family of plants in restricted format.
The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction. Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:- Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden, Garden Cultivation gives specific data about growing vegetables in a kitchen garden, or fruit in an orchard, or lawns, ponds etc, Propagation gives details on how to propagate new plants from seed, division or grafting, Garden Pests includes information on garden pests and diseases with their control and Garden Tips gives tips on different parts of gardening. Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section.
Title	ISBN	Author	Pictures of	Content
A Handguide to the Butterflies and Moths of Britain and Europe	1-85051-115-2	John Wilkinson and Michael Tweedie	Butterflies and Moths	Butterfly and Moth data
Along the Riverbank The living countryside		Nigel Holmes Reader's Digest		Details the plant and animal communities of rivers in Britain
Birds of Britain			birds	British Bird data
Chick Rearing and Hatching for the Beginner		Ditchfield		How to hatch and raise chicks. Thin Booklet
Complete British Wildlife Photoguide	0-00-220071-6	Paul Sterry	3000 wildlife and plants	Good description including photograph of:- mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, butterflies and moths, insects, spiders, molluscs, crustaceans, invertebrates, trees and shrubs, wild flowers, grasses, rushes and sedges, lower plants, and fungi
Frogs and Toads	0-905483-38-3	Trevor Beebee	Frog and toad diagrams	Behaviour and life of frogs and toads
Hedgehogs	0-905483-28-6	Pat Morris		Behaviour, habits, physiology and private life of hedgehogs
Looking After Wild Birds		Talking Pets		How to feed wild birds with helping birds to build a nest. Thin Booklet
Our Heritage of Wild Nature		A.G. Tansley	26 wild animals and countryside	Planning for the preservation of rural beauty must be directed to the deliberate conservation of much of our native vegetation. Written in 1944 with conclusions that are still relevant today
Our Magnificent Wildlife how to enjoy and preserve it		Reader's Digest	wildlife	Wildlife of the world is detailed in 331 pages
Pond Life		Rev. Charles A. Hall		Wordy essay on pond plant and animal life of 1913
Reader's Digest Pocket Book of Birds		Hermann Heinzel		An illustrated guide to the identification of all the birds commonly seen in Britain, as well as some of the rarer species. Thin Booklet
The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs. Series One		T.A. Coward	242 coloured illustrations	Handy pocket guide to British birds published in 1939. Written description of which areas it lives in, of itself, its feeding habits and its young.
The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs. Series Two		T.A. Coward	213 coloured illustrations	Handy pocket guide to British birds published in 1939. Written description of which areas it lives in, of itself, its feeding habits and its young.
The Conservation of Farm Ponds & Ditches	0-86139-194-2	Nature Conservancy Council	Water plants/ animals	Management of ponds and ditches to aid conservation of them, their plants and animal life. 11 page booklet
The Conservation of Lowland Broadleaf Woodland	0-86139-201-9	Nature Conservancy Council	Woodland trees/animals	Management of woodland to aid conservation of them, their plants and animal life. 11 page booklet
The Countryman's Week-End Book		Eric Parker		Wordy essay of 1946 about garden, bird, field animals trees, and country crafts
The Hedgehog	0-85263-958-9	P.A. Morris	Hedgehogs	Hedgehogs. Thin Booklet
The Observer's Book of British Wild Animals		W.J. Stokoe	46 wild animals	All the wild animals endowed with a bony framework are described in essay form
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Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Wildlife Books