Beginner Gardening: shade loving And attracts birds?, 1 by Diana_K

Diana_K wrote:
In a spot where you often burn the soil will not be so good for plants. Scrape away all the ashes and any soil that looks like the ashes have seeped into. It can be spread around, there are some useful nutrients in there; just concentrated it is not good.

If you can start composting the finer stuff that would provide you with a lot of very good soil conditioner, and the chips from the branches would make a high quality mulch.

I would make that spot into a focal point with a bit of a mound, the bird bath, and plants that grow lower than the bird bath. From a bird's point of view a predator could hide in the taller plants, so the bird bath would not be used so much.
Away from the bird bath, taller plants.

The grass does not look like it is lush or dense, so yes, shaded. Yet the trees look high enough that it is bright shade, not dense shade.

Are there local gardens that might have a brochure about bird attracting plants that will grow locally?
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=1146#top




This message was edited May 25, 2015 6:23 AM