Mathew Tekulsky

Lots of great photos of hummingbirds, and fun stories about hummingbirds in gardens. Probably an enjoyable read if you're simply a hummingbird enthusiast looking for a good time. However, it was slim on practical instructions for designing your own garden to attract hummingbirds. There are anecdotes of garden design and plant suggestions scattered throughout, but nothing like a systematic approach to plant selection or garden layout. And there's a fairly extensive appendix of plants that hummingbirds might use, but not much on which plants are _most_ favored, or on what current research has to say on hummingbirds' relationship to various plants. Maybe there really is nothing more to a good hummingbird garden than using a variety of plants they like and following the generic rules of landscape design, but I didn't leave this book feeling like I had any more direction than when I started.… (plus d'informations)