Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy

Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. TallamyFrom the Publisher: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlifenative insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other

Width: 50’-75’

catalpa shows it with it’s large

Fruit: Hard seeds that resemble popcorn kernels inside a thin walled

Foliage is readily eaten by mammalian browsers

and mourning cloak

Estimated Height at Pickup: 4-5'

An adaptable plant that will accept many water levels so long as soil is well drained

but fun and instructive

Plants are slow growing but long lived- young individuals have a pyramidal shape and mature trees are spreading

With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide

nuts mature in fall

An adaptable flowering tree excellent for wildlife support