RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife - Peter Holden & Geoffrey Abbott

Now in its third edition, the incredibly popular RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife remains the most comprehensive, single source of information on the plants and animals that live alongside us.

Full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden and encouraging it to stick around, this friendly handbook also offers tips on green gardening, seasonal planting, wildling your garden, dry gardens, dealing with garden predators and getting children involved in gardening. It also includes practical step-by-step guides on DIY garden projects, from building bat, hedgehog and nest boxes to making your own pond.

From foxes and finches to lizards and ladybirds, colour photographs illustrate more than 375 garden species, including mammals, birds, insects, other invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, flowers, trees, shrubs and fungi, and the thorough text explains everything that you need to cultivate a haven for nature.

‘An absolute must for anyone who has ever pulled back the curtains and wondered what creature, great or small, has taken up residence in the herbaceous border.’ - Sunday Express