  Brooklyn, NY - With just a few simple changes described in Brooklyn Botanic Garden's new book, The Butterfly Gardener's Guide, you can transform your backyard into a haven for beautiful butterflies. Learn how to turn even a small property into a miniature wildlife refuge in any region. BBG's second book of its new All-Region Guides is a necessary addition to every gardener's bookshelf. The 120-page book features spectacular portraits of North America's most common butterflies, as well as inspiring color photos of their favorite flowers - which also happen to be some of the most beautiful bloomers in a garden. Unlike other books on butterfly gardens, it is written by a butterfly expert, and explains how you can nurture and observe butterflies as they transform themselves from eggs to colorful caterpillars to the stunning butterflies that gracefully flit from flower to flower. Chapters covered include:
An illustrated guide to butterfly biology
Turning your yard into a butterfly sanctuary
Helping butterflies through the winter
How to design butterfly borders and meadows
Herbs that butterflies love
And an encyclopedia of the best butterfly and caterpillar plants for each region
Claire Hagen Dole, editor of The Butterfly Gardener's Guide, was publisher and editor of Butterfly Gardeners' Quarterly, a national newsletter, from 1994-2001. She has written on wildlife gardening for many publications, including Country Living, Organic Gardening, American Gardener and Audubon. Contributors to The Butterfly Gardener's Guide include butterfly biologists and gardeners from every region, including Oregon, California, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida, and Nova Scotia.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guides
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's 21st-Century Gardening Series has been given a new name and a new look. Now called Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guides, the series' second title in 2003, The Butterfly Gardener's Guide, is now available. Each volume of the series is designed to be user-friendly with expert growing information, a plant encyclopedia, practical advice, mail-order sources, and stunning photographs for all regions of the country. A trusted source for gardeners' needs since 1945, BBG's gardening handbooks are the only ones of their kind produced by a botanic garden.
The series of handbooks is guest-edited by the very pioneers who are revolutionizing American garden design. Authors of individual chapters are chosen for their knowledge of particular regions of the country in order to give each volume geographical balance. The books are lushly illustrated, easy to read, and offer inspiration and tips for those who enjoy studying gardening or just being in nature. Winners of the Garden Writers Association of America's "2000 Quill and Trowel Award" and the International Herb Association's 2002 and 2000 "Herbal Horticulture Award," the handbooks are full of practical ideas on how to make gardens both ecologically sensible and beautiful.
"[A] brilliant collection of little gardening handbooks published quarterly by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden... there is, as usual, the mix of common sense, practical advice and, on occasion, pointed debunking that make these slender volumes do the work of books twice their size and three times their price." - The New York Times
"For expert advice in all realms of horticulture, gardeners have come to depend upon the handbooks produced by Brooklyn Botanic Garden." - Booklist
Ordering Information
The Butterfly Gardener's Guide (ISBN 1-889538-58-2) is available through Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. in bookstores and at garden centers for $9.95 in the U.S./$15.95 in Canada. For wholesale ordering information, call Sterling Publishing at 800-367-9692 or visit their web site at www.sterlingpub.com. For retail and individual book sales, visit www.bbg.org or call (718) 623-7286. To receive a free brochure of current and past handbook titles, call (718) 623-7289.
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