Shrubs That Attract Birds and Butterflies - Enjoying Wildlife
Watching butterflies, hummingbirds and other wild birds is a fun part of landscaping. Create butterfly gardens and plant shrubs and trees good at attracting birds. Design your landscape with an eye to attracting birds. Grow and craft gourds to make novel gourd birdhouses. Attracting butterflies to butterfly gardens means plants attractive to you, too!
Butterfly Bush for Hummingbird Gardens, Butterfly Gardens
Butterfly bush has a prime place in butterfly gardens, and is particularly adept at attracting tiger swallowtails. But butterfly bushes also attract hummingbirds, making them must-haves for hummingbird gardens, too. And don't forget the bees: butterfly bush will also attract the bees that will pollinate other plants in your garden.
Butterfly bush has a prime place in butterfly gardens, and is particularly adept at attracting tiger swallowtails. But butterfly bushes also attract hummingbirds, making them must-haves for hummingbird gardens, too. And don't forget the bees: butterfly bush will also attract the bees that will pollinate other plants in your garden.
Attract Birds With Dogwood and Other Flowering Trees, Shrubs
Birdwatching and landscaping can complement each other beautifully when you plant your landscape with flowering shrubs and trees. Read why dogwood makes #1 on my Top 10 list. Descriptions accompany all 10 of my top picks for spring shrubs and trees, many of which provide hours of birdwatching fun with their colorful berries.
Birdwatching and landscaping can complement each other beautifully when you plant your landscape with flowering shrubs and trees. Read why dogwood makes #1 on my Top 10 list. Descriptions accompany all 10 of my top picks for spring shrubs and trees, many of which provide hours of birdwatching fun with their colorful berries.
Butterfly Gardens: Attracting Butterflies With Trees, Flowers
Butterfly gardens are similar to hummingbird gardens -- but with some important differences. Learn about the plants effective in attracting adult butterflies. But to have optimal butterfly gardens, you'll also need host plants for caterpillars. Like birdwatching, watching butterflies is a natural extension to landscaping, and butterfly gardens are becoming a popular component of landscaping.
Butterfly gardens are similar to hummingbird gardens -- but with some important differences. Learn about the plants effective in attracting adult butterflies. But to have optimal butterfly gardens, you'll also need host plants for caterpillars. Like birdwatching, watching butterflies is a natural extension to landscaping, and butterfly gardens are becoming a popular component of landscaping.
Hummingbird Gardens for Attracting Hummingbirds
Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds doesn't mean placing great restrictions on your gardening options. Hummingbird watching goes hand in hand with enjoying beautiful trees, shrubs and other flowering plants that act as virtual birdfeeders. Many bushes that attract hummingbirds also attract butterflies, so it's easy to combine hummingbird gardens and butterfly gardens.
Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds doesn't mean placing great restrictions on your gardening options. Hummingbird watching goes hand in hand with enjoying beautiful trees, shrubs and other flowering plants that act as virtual birdfeeders. Many bushes that attract hummingbirds also attract butterflies, so it's easy to combine hummingbird gardens and butterfly gardens.
Trees and Shrubs to Attract Wild Birds
Planting the landscape for fall is about more than just vibrant fall foliage on trees and shrubs. Don't overlook the potential of many shrubs and trees to attract birds. My "Top Ten" list will help bird watchers and landscapers alike.
Planting the landscape for fall is about more than just vibrant fall foliage on trees and shrubs. Don't overlook the potential of many shrubs and trees to attract birds. My "Top Ten" list will help bird watchers and landscapers alike.
Attracting Eastern Bluebirds, Robins With Sumac Trees
Sumac shrub is an important food source for wild birds in late winter and early spring. With its gold, red and maroon fall colors, native sumac shrub is also a boon to landscapers looking for quick and easy fall color. Enjoy watching bluebirds and robins eat this shrub's berries after all other food sources have dried up!
Sumac shrub is an important food source for wild birds in late winter and early spring. With its gold, red and maroon fall colors, native sumac shrub is also a boon to landscapers looking for quick and easy fall color. Enjoy watching bluebirds and robins eat this shrub's berries after all other food sources have dried up!
Pussy Willows
Learn about pussy willows, including how to prune pussy willow shrubs. By pruning pussy willows properly, you can keep them shrub-sized on the landscape, rather than becoming 20-foot trees.
Learn about pussy willows, including how to prune pussy willow shrubs. By pruning pussy willows properly, you can keep them shrub-sized on the landscape, rather than becoming 20-foot trees.
Trees and Shrubs for Winter Interest, Birdwatching
Ideas to promote bird watching and visual interest on the winter landscape. This list of the 10 best plants for winter focuses on such factors as drawing wild birds for bird watching, color displays and plant hardiness. Pictures included. Attracting birds with these plants "kills 2 birds with one stone," since they're also plants that attract humans!
Ideas to promote bird watching and visual interest on the winter landscape. This list of the 10 best plants for winter focuses on such factors as drawing wild birds for bird watching, color displays and plant hardiness. Pictures included. Attracting birds with these plants "kills 2 birds with one stone," since they're also plants that attract humans!
Attract Wild Birds With Winterberry Shrubs
Winterberry shrub is an important emergency food source for wild birds when winter comes. Its bright red berries also bring color to an otherwise dreary landscape. So grow winter cheer and wild bird food at the same time with colorful winterberry shrub!
Winterberry shrub is an important emergency food source for wild birds when winter comes. Its bright red berries also bring color to an otherwise dreary landscape. So grow winter cheer and wild bird food at the same time with colorful winterberry shrub!
Holly Trees and Shrubs -- They're "For the Birds"
Holly is perhaps the second best known Christmas cut evergreen after the Christmas tree. But holly trees and shrubs are also attractive landscape plants, whose berries attract wild birds and provide them with cover from predators. Grow holly as a Christmas present to the wild birds -- and to the the bird watchers in your family.
Holly is perhaps the second best known Christmas cut evergreen after the Christmas tree. But holly trees and shrubs are also attractive landscape plants, whose berries attract wild birds and provide them with cover from predators. Grow holly as a Christmas present to the wild birds -- and to the the bird watchers in your family.
Silent Spring: Slowing Down to Hear Spring Birds
Rachel Carson warned against DDT in "Silent Spring," fearing the birds would be permanently silenced. But there's another silence that's good. Silence your bustling activity long enough to listen to the birds of spring.
Rachel Carson warned against DDT in "Silent Spring," fearing the birds would be permanently silenced. But there's another silence that's good. Silence your bustling activity long enough to listen to the birds of spring.