Bird Watching: Best Trees and Shrubs for the Bird Garden Part 2, 1 by tabasco
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Subject: Best Trees and Shrubs for the Bird Garden Part 2
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tabasco wrote: Hi, Birdsters, After over 200 posts on the old thread, it's time to start a sequel to our successful 'Best Trees and Shrubs for the Bird Garden'. Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and information to that one, and I hope you have more observations and tips to offer here too! FYI a link to the old thread: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/682674/ Here at our house we have a growing outside our kitchen door a rather gangley volunteer Elderberry Bush that promises to be a treat for the birds. It seemed like this shrub just 'appeared' as the centerpiece in this scrappy tacky garden and then just grew like jack's beanstalk. It's about eight or nine feet tall just from this season and full of pretty white flowers which I hope will soon turn to berry treats for the birds. We have another 'designer' Elderberry with pinkish black leaves that is quite elegant and much better behaved which has already bloomed and berried and the birds enjoyed it immensely. Especially one old Mockingbird, but I'm not exactly sure that's a good thing or not. Just for reference I am reposting at the top of this thread a list of birds and their favorite shrubs/trees from "The Helpful Gardener" website. I scanned thru it and saw lots of new ideas for our bird garden. And shrubs will be going on sale soon so I'm making a wish list! So, what's on your 'wish list' and what are your latest tips and observations?? Let us know! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! General Plant Guide to Attracting Birds in the Northeast Purple finches Cotoneaster, Ornamental grasses Cedar Waxwing Cotoneaster, Pyracantha, Mountain Ash, Junipers Robins Flowering Dogwood, Crabapples, healthy and unhealthy lawns Eastern Phoebe Serviceberry, Sumacs Downy Woodpecker Serviceberry, Dogwood, Mountain Ash, Virginia Creeper Ruby-throated Hummingbird Trumpet vine, Weigela, Columbine, Bee Balm, Quince, most flowering plants producing red or orange flowers Indigo Bunting Unruly lawns, Dandelions, Goldenrod, Thistle Nuthatch Pine, Spruce and Fir trees Chickadee Winterberry, Serviceberry, Viburnums, Bayberry, Junipers Pileated Woodpecker Serviceberry, Elderberry Rose-breasted Grosbeak Cherry, Dogwood, Virginia creeper, Elderberry, Mulberry Sparrow Ornamental grasses, Roses, Junipers Scarlet Tanager Pines, Serviceberry, Elderberry, Maples, Elms, Oaks Junco Grasses, Conifers, Cosmos, Zinnia Red-winged Blackbird Marsh grasses, open pastureland Gold Finch Thistles, Grasses, Echinacea, Rudbeckia Northern Flicker Elderberry, Blueberry, Dogwoods Grackle Oaks, Grasses, poorly maintained lawns Baltimore oriole Quince, Serviceberry, Maples, Elms, Oaks Cardinal Winterberry, Roses, Dogwood, Junipers Mockingbird Bayberry, Serviceberry, Elderberry, Sumac, Dogwood Titmouse Oaks, Serviceberry, Elderberry, Bayberry Bluebird Dogwood, Virginia creeper, Holly, Juniper, Sumac, Serviceberry Wren Bayberry This message was edited Jul 2, 2011 4:03 AM |