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Author Mathew Tekulsky wrote the first book on butterfly
gardening for North America, nearly 40 years ago! Butterfly
gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to
your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for
food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will
bring colour, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the
relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, it’s not
hard to see why it’s sweeping the nation and growing in
popularity. How to Create a Butterfly Garden is a complete,
step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. You’ll learn
about: The butterfly life cycle, habitats, and behaviours Choosing
and obtaining food and nectar sources Designing your garden Options
for country, suburban, and city gardens Fifty common garden
butterflies and the plants they like Butterfly observation and
conservation This guide will teach you everything you need to get
started—whether you’re a suburban resident, the owner of a
small urban garden, an apartment dweller, or a keeper of a country
estate, you can enjoy frequent butterfly visits to your garden or
window box. The key, Tekulsky believes, is learning some basic
knowledge of butterfly characteristics and behaviour and knowing
how to meet the needs of the butterfly species most common in your
neighbourhood. Not only is butterfly gardening one of the easiest
ways to enjoy these enchanting creatures, but it’s also a
wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for
generations to come. Learn how to create your own beautiful
butterfly garden today!
From sea to shining sea, from Yankee Stadium to Yosemite National
Park, Mathew Tekulsky turns his lens and commentary on the greatest
topic of them all, the United States of America, in his new book
Americana: A Photographic Journey. Following on the heels of his
successful book Galapagos Birds: A Photographic Voyage, Mr.
Tekulsky’s take on the American landscape includes images such as
a barn with an American flag draped along its side; John Lennon’s
Imagine mosaic in New York City’s Central Park; covered bridges
and antique automobiles; an inflatable Uncle Sam in a front yard
festooned with red, white, and blue buntings; John Burroughs’
Slabsides cabin; Mariano Rivera pitching a save at Yankee Stadium;
a classic Vermont diner; a roller coaster at twilight; the Beverly
Hills Hotel; tourists at Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park; and
surfboards in Hawaii. And there’s much, much more in this book.
We live in an era of photographic images, and Mr. Tekulsky has
provided the reader with 83 of the best photographs of America that
you will ever see. According to Wikipedia, Americana is defined as
“any collection of materials and things concerning or
characteristic of the United States or of the American people and
is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a
whole.” As such, Mathew Tekulsky’s book Americana: A
Photographic Journey is a piece of Americana itself.
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