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	Reference	S5208
	Publisher	London, Collins
	Year	1978
	ISBN	0002196069
	Condition	VG/VG (?)

The total with shipping for this book within the UK would be £12.92.

Reprint hardback (1st 1977), 287 pages. 24 composite plates of wonderful colour illustrations by Marjorie Blamey, Anthony Orford, Denys Ovenden and Gordon Riley.  The jacket painting is by Yvonne Skargon.   Generally in very good condition; hardcovers and price-clipped dj are lightly rubbed at edges from shelf wear, contents clean and crisp, no marks or tears.

'This book is about the intruders in our gardens - a book about gardens for the naturalist, about natural history for the gardener.  Michael Chinery, as naturalist, teacher, and self-confessedly untidy gardener, is the ideal author to lead us up this highly diverting garden path.  Taking each group in turn, he introduces us to weeds, fungi, lichen, mosses, and other opportunists of the plant kingdom; and to the worms, slugs, snails, centipedes and millipedes, butterflies, bees, wasps, moles, hedgehogs, bats, mice, wrens, tits, finches, owls, swifts, swallows and the host of other animals that take up unofficial residence in our gardens.  He shows us where to look for them and how to recognise them when we have found them.  He also tells us how to garden for wildlife: a bird table or pond can give endless entertainment and a few thistles in a sunny corner will attract all the common butterflies.'

A charming book for anyone wanting to introduce children to the delights of garden wildlife, especially organic gardeners who probably already have a thriving wildlife community!

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