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Make your garden "bird friendly" now: Bird Gardens
"mmarteen" wrote in message
... I am thinking about planting a bird garden this spring in a now kind of ugly area of my yard at the back of the house near the alley. Stuff I am considering planting the Two kinds of amaranth Two kinds of millet Sunflowers (various kinds) Celosia (both the plumed kind and the cockscomb for looks) I was also thinking about putting a bird bath among the sunflowers so that they would have food and water. I'd love to hear any other ideas on design, varieties of plants or experiences people have had. mm One thing you didn't mention was shrubs or trees for nesting sites. Birds seem to prefer dense foliage in shrubs for nests.The favorites in my yard are an overgrown, untrimmed forsythia (cardinal favorite), an althea that has dense foliage, a bridal wreath that is about five feet tall and as wide, and a couple of Japanese maples along with a holly that a brown thrasher nests in yearly. Bird nests are impossible to spot in any of these shrubs/trees unless you pull aside the foliage. We usually only realize there are nests in these when we hear a male singing or notice activity in and out of the plant as the parents gather food. Birds also pick unusual spots. One was a pot of ivy on our front porch which a Carolina wren decided was the perfect nesting site. Yes, I watered the ivy from the bottom while the wren claimed it. John |
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