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**THE SUNDAY Occasions BESTSELLER**

The Garden Jungle is approximately the wildlife that lives right under our noses, in our gardens and parks, between your gaps in the pavement, and in the soil beneath our feet. Wherever you are right now, the probabilities are that there are worms, woodlice, centipedes, flies, silverfish, wasps, beetles, mice, shrews and far, much more, silently living within just several paces of you.

Dave Goulson provides all of us an insight in to the amazing and about The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet sometimes strange lives of these creatures, taking all of us burrowing into the compost heap, digging under the yard and diving into the garden pond. He clarifies how our lives and ultimately the fate of humankind are inextricably intertwined with that of earwigs, bees, lacewings and hoverflies, unappreciated heroes from the natural world.

The Garden Jungle reaches times an immensely serious book, exploring the environmental harm inadvertently done by gardeners who buy intensively reared plants in disposable plastic pots, sprayed with pesticides and grown in peat cut from the ground. Goulson argues that gardens could become places where we are able to reconnect with nature and rediscover where meals comes from. With just a couple small changes, our backyards could turn into a vast network of small character reserves, where humans and animals can thrive collectively in harmony rather than conflict.

For anyone who has a garden, and cares about our world, this book is vital reading.