"In POLLINATOR GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH, Spafford and Carley combine the latest scientific findings about the needs of plant pollinators with easily applicable landscape strategies to enable gardeners of all levels to design, plant, and maintain their perfect pollinator-friendly garden. Packing a punch by combining plant growing know-how with garden design know-how, this book will provide critical and creative information on designing, planting and managing successful pollinator gardens. And it is a book designed specifically for the garden-crazy South, covering North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, the Florida panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, very eastern Texas, southern and eastern Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. This includes USDA Hardiness Zones 6, 7, 8 and the physiographic regions of the coastal plain, the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the southern Appalachian Mountains and Appalachian Plateau, and the southern end of the interior low plateau"