An accessible guide to attracting more wildlife to your garden, from birds to bats, frogs to bugs. This is a clearly written relatively short guide to making a wildlife garden. Included are a range of projects from building a small wildlife pond to building a bat box. Also included is a guide to different garden birds and how to attract them, and suggestions on what plants to grow and how.
This book has loads of photos and I love the use of bullet points instead of large paragraphs of text.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

I like Joe Swift's books. I reviewed a book of his about Houseplants. It was so good, I bought a copy for a friend's Christmas and she loved it very much for its tips.

Nature Garden is another book with a great, easy to use layout, full of hints, tips and practical advice for what to plant to create or add to your garden.

We all know garden's are great for the environment and for wellbeing. With this book, you can attract bees and butterflies etc and create a wonderful chilled out space for you and your family.
This book shows it doesn't have to be complicated and you can create something good, whatever your budget and space.

Gardens change in fashion all the time and now is the age of the nature garden, where plants and configurations of them is to encourage wildlife and help it along. Joe Swift guides you by the hand to do this, in a gentle and helpful way. Even on the page, it feels like he could easily be there in-person as the book tells you everything you need to know, even which plants are best and how to plant them.

I highly recommend this easy to use book, that you can dip in and out of for help and to inspire. So, I wonder what you're going to plant this year...

Interesting read, although i'm not sure i'd get another in the series.
If you want to bring nature back to your garden though worth a read.

As always Joe's book is a wealth of information, all laid out in an accessible fashion.
It's helpfully split into sections (must admit I first skipped to the sections I was most interested in) and has a really good amount of images to go alongside any explanations. Whilst it isn't a step-by-step how to build a wildlife garden, you pretty much can work through the book and do just that.
It's got plenty of little projects in it to help make your garden nature friendly, and you can use them to get younger family members excited about gardening and nature!
All round good and very useful book.

Thanks to NetGalley for an advance copy of this book and several others by Joe Swift. Each of them is clearly written and illustrated. This book adds to interest by having the wildlife slant. I have already ordered a hard copy from Amazon as a gift for a friend.

Create Your Own Nature Garden is one of a set of accessible gardening guides by Joe Swift covering a range of gardening topics. Due out 3rd March 2022 from Collins Reference, it's 224 pages and will be available in ebook format.

This is a well written garden tutorial and inspiration book for gardeners who are looking at supporting indigenous flora and fauna and incorporating more naturalistic garden design as inspiration. The author does a really good job of highlighting specific potential problems and providing creative solutions. The information is written in clear and concise blocks with special tips written directly on the photo illustrations. The photography is clear, well done, plentiful, and rendered in colour throughout the book.

The chapters are arranged thematically around specific elements: layouts, wildlife needs, wildlife corridors, ponds, birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and a lot more. The second part of the book contains a good listing of plants, shrubs, trees, bulbs, and perennials for every purpose. Many of them are chosen for their size or suitability/toughness, as well as their contributions/attractiveness to wildlife. Plant listings contain the botanical (Latin) nomenclature as well as common name, a description, and colour photos showing foliage and flowers (if applicable).

The book's terminology and climate information are based on UK English, although most of the information is certainly applicable to gardeners outside the British Islands.

Five stars. This would be a good choice for public and school libraries, gardening groups, community/allotment gardens, suburban gardeners, homeowners, etc. As a set, the books collectively cover most every subject the home gardener would ever need.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This is the third book I read by Joe Swift and want to buy all of them as they are well written, informative, and no nonsense.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine