Subject: Re: Backyard Wildlife Habitats
Date: Jul 17 13:48:20 1997
From: Allyn Weaks - allyn at cornetto.chem.washington.edu
Wallitra at aol.com wrote:
>Following up on Allyn's email, I would recommend Arthur Kruckeberg's
>Gardening With Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest. A new edition has been
>released and is now available.
And I also should have mentioned April Pettinger's _Native Plants in the
Coastal Garden_, which though it doesn't cover as many plants as
Kruckeberg, talks more about which plants belong in which types of habitat
community (upland, wet meadow, etc) and also gives more in the way of
wildlife attracting value. Another indespensible book is Pojar & MacKinnon
_Plants of the Pacific Northwest_, a photographic field guide which gives
range maps, habitat info, some ethnobotany, and good pictures of the things
listed in Kruckeberg and Pettinger. But what I really want are hyperlinks
between the plant books and all of the animal books (birds, butterflies and
other insects, ...), so I can have lists of who eats or is eaten by what
(and who)...
Allyn Weaks
allyn at cornetto.chem.washington.edu aka allyn at u.washington.edu
Pacific Northwest Native Wildlife Gardening:
http://chemwww.chem.washington.edu/natives/