Synopses & Reviews
Garden Butterflies of North America is a vivid color portfolio of 40 of North America's most treasured and colorful garden butterfly varieties. It's loaded with natural history and illustrated information on how to design and manage gardens and backyards to attract butterflies. Plans for all types of gardens, from a container garden to a full-sized formal garden, plantings that attract butterflies, how to build a butterfly hibernating box, and more. Rick Mikula is the founder (in 1980) of the Hole-in-Hand Butterfly Farm.
Synopsis
Offering a vivid color portfolio of 40 of North America's most treasured and colorful garden butterfly varieties, including swallowtails, sulphurs, gossamer wings, metalmarks, snouts, whites, and skippers, this glorious book also presents natural history vignettes of the individual butterflies and information on how to design gardens and yards to attract them. 80 color photos. Range maps.