Bringing Nature Home asclepias and the mountain lions still

and the mountain lions still roaming the hills

and—ultimately—hope

California’s unique plants range in size from the stately Coast Redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts and in age from the four-thousand year-old Bristlecone Pines to ephemeral annuals whose life span can be counted in weeks

dating back to 1903

multiacre scale

Bringing Nature Home asclepias and the mountain lions stillIn 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. If you cut down the goldenrod, the wild black cherry, the milkweed and other natives, you eliminate the larvae, and starve the birds. This simple revelation about the food web, and it is an intricate web, not a chain is the driving force in Bringing Nature Home. The New York