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New Book Urges the Planting of More Native Plants A professor at the University of Delaware has a new book out, " Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Life in Our Gardens " and it is of course published by Timber Press . The link above is to an interview with Dr. Tallamay in the college's paper. (288-pages, 300-photos, $27, free shipping on the publisher's website.) From the interview: "I took a course in woody landscape plants and found out about all these fascinating exotic plants,” says Tallamy . “Meanwhile, in my entomology courses, I was learning about plant-insect interactions. “All of the information I needed to realize that covering the land with alien plant species might not be such a good idea had been neatly placed in my lap in grad school, but it was 20 years before I made the connection: our native insects, and therefore our wildlife, will not be able to survive on alien plant species.” Houseplant Advice And, from a blog called Gardening...