Gardening for wildlife: your landscape can be a sanctuary for birds, butterflies, and other lovely creatures. (Garden: Outdoor Living).

From: Sunset | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Cohoon, Sharon; Swezey, Lauren Bonar | Copyright information

* "I've seen animals do things in my backyard you don't get to see on National Geographic," says Barbara Thuro, whose garden in Vista, California, is a sanctuary for a variety of creatures, winged and wild. Dragonflies perform aerial acrobatics over the pond. Raccoons sleep under her deck; at night they join skunks, opossums, and other prowlers rustling in the bushes while crickets serenade them.

Up north in Pleasant Hill, California, the chirping sound of white-crowned...

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