Great for Nature Lovers

Last year I received a subscription to Birds and Blooms magazine for a christmas present, and though it is not a magazine I normally would have thought about buying, I find that I enjoy the magazine and always save the old issues to share with friends or to refer back to.

The magazine is filled with beautiful photographs of birds and flowers. The photography is break-taking and at times it is comparable to anything you might see in the class-act National Geographic magazine.

The magazine gives you advice on the types of flowers to plant and which ones will attract different types of birds. It gives you hints and suggestions on proper care and maintenance of your flowers, along with advice on how to attract unusual and unique birds to your back yard.

The two topics, birds and flowers intertwine with each other, as they do in real life.

The magazine has approximately twelve sections, this months issue consists of:

Garden variety...a showcase of the backyard
Blooming Beauty..tropical water lilies
Top Billing..a story on chimney swifts
Ready for a walk?..a tour of gorgeous back yards
Golden Memories..American goldfinches
Photos with a twist..a unique new way to photograph flowers
Outside interests..Garden fever
No.1 Green thumb..a gardeners back yard
Here's the plan...how to build a trellis
Showpiece...Potentilla, a flowering shrub
Good enough to eat..Herbal tea
Backyard Banter..six pages of odds and ends

There is also a place called Garden Chat where readers can write and share a story or incident with readers.

Questions across the Fence..allows readers to write and ask questions for other readers to answer.

Bird Tales..lets readers share stories about feathered friends.

Glad you asked..is a place you can write and ask more technical questions fro the contributing editors, Melinda Myers and George Harrison, the flower and bird experts for the magazine.

The last page is "Kids in Bloom"..kids enjoying their backyard, photos that are sent in by readers.

If you like birdhouses, then this is the magazine for you, they showcase birdhouses ranking from the very simple, to elaborate almost mansions for birds.

This months issue is 66 pages long, totally free of any advertisements, the only advertisement in the entire magazine was one for their own magazine where they were offering a free certificate so you could get a free issue of Birds and Bloom.

I find the magazine refreshing and enjoyable. It is nice to find a magazine that does not bombard you with drop out advertisements and pages of continued stories that you have to thumb thru pages of "commercials" to be able to finish the story.

This is a quick read magazine, much more suited for casual browsing. A great coffee table magazine, and nice to pick up and just thumb through it.

I would recommend this magazine to anyone.