"A Northern Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators resonates with environmentalists and nature enthusiasts alike with its focus on native plants and their crucial relationship with pollinators. This comprehensive guide tackles the pitfalls of traditional landscaping while pushing readers toward adopting sustainable landscaping practices and creating habitats in the Northern region. The guide’s strength lies in its commitment to raising awareness about the importance of biodiversity in our landscapes."
Wild Ones Journal
"Informatively illustrated on every page, A Northern Gardener's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators is an ideal and comprehensive compendium that is thoroughly 'gardener friendly' in organization and presentation. An essential horticultural and gardening reference for both novice and experienced gardeners alike, A Northern Gardener's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators must be considered a core and essential addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Gardening/Horticulture reference and identification collections."
Midwest Book Review
"A Northern Gardner's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators is a valuable resource that no Northern California gardener should be without.… Lovely color illustrations by Ann Sanderson enhance the growing strategy instructions and opportunities presented in this book, which covers everything from planning a garden to choosing native plants with its pollinators in mind."
California Book Watch
"It’s more than a gardening guide — it’s a handbook for climate action!"
Maine Organic Farmer & Gardner
"What a valuable, comprehensive, timely, and beautiful resource! Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla provide the rationale, urgency, and detailed know-how for restoring essential pollinator habitats. Just a fantastic contribution!"
Douglas Tallamy, author of "Bringing Nature Home"
"This book has it all—sample garden plans, beautiful illustrations and photographs, a comprehensive section profiling native plants and the specific pollinators the plants support, answers to common pollinator gardening questions, and a discussion about the critical link between native plants and pollinators…gardeners will treasure this extremely informative book."
Heather Holm, Pollinator Conservationist and author of "Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide"
"A glorious manifesto... Profusely illustrated, it highlights dozens of pollinator-worthy flowering plants for home and community gardens. An encyclopedic but highly accessible book that belongs with every gardener and naturalist."
Stephen Buchmann, author of "What a Bee Knows" and "The Reason for Flowers"
"Seldom is there a reference that is so delightful to peruse. It gives even a beginning naturalist a sense of hope, a feeling that even a simple gardener can do something both meaningful and beautiful for their gardens, for their garden’s pollinators, and ultimately, for their whole community."
Olivia Messinger Carril, co-author of "The Bees in Your Backyard"