Urban domestic gardens (IX) Composition and richness of the vascular plant flora, and implications for native biodiversity

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Closing the Gap: Communicating to Change Gardening Practices in Support of Native Biodiversity in Urban Private Gardens (2012, background): “This is considerably less than the average of 45% of all plant species recorded for natives in UK gardens (Smith et al. 2006a), and illustrates the gap that occurs between recorded values and attitudes and actual behavior.”
Recent non‐native invertebrate plant pest establishments in Great Britain: origins, pathways, and trends (2007, background): “Such plants include a disproportionate number of woody species (trees and shrubs) compared with annuals, biennials and perennials, both in garden environments ( Smith et al. , 2006 ) and the British alien flora ( Crawley et al. , 1996 ).”
Small scale additions of native plants fail to increase beneficial insect richness in urban gardens (2011, background): “…Insect Conservation and Diversity 2010 The Royal Entomological Society, Insect Conservation and Diversity, 4, 89–98 gardens are characterised by high percentages of non-native vegetation (Smith et al., 2006a) with many garden plants selected for resistance to herbivorous insects, suggesting…”