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The best garden plants for birds | House & Garden
30.08.2024 - 09:12 / houseandgarden.co.uk / Hazel Sillver
A Goldfinch perching on teasel
A garden is potentially a paradise for birds. The right habitat will offer them a variety of food, shelter from the elements and from predators, and places to nest. By growing bird-friendly plants, a border can quickly become a larder of insects, berries, hips, and seeds. And by planting lots of evergreen cover – in the form of climbers, shrubs, or trees – the garden is transformed into a safe, leafy haven.
In return, we get the enjoyment of watching the birds. In spring, they are flying back and forth with nest-building material, and then with food for chicks, and, come early summer, fledglings are learning to forage and fly. For much of the year, birds fill the air with song; two of the most enchanting singers in the bird world – the blackbird and the robin – are very common garden birds, and the robin is unique in continuing to warble through winter.
Birds are also highly useful to gardeners: blue tits pick aphids off roses, thrushes smash snails, sparrows polish off caterpillars, great tits sweep the eaves of spiders, and robins keep us company whilst we do the weeding. Give birds the plants they love, and they will lend us a helping hand and bring the garden to life.
If you have room for a tree, it will bring in a lot of birds, being both a rich habitat for insects that they can eat and a place of shelter.
Mountain ashes (Sorbus) are excellent, providing colourful clusters of berries that feed blackbirds, thrushes, and waxwings, as well as autumn leaf colour and bee-friendly flowers in late spring. Pink-berried 'Leonard Messel' and golden-berried 'Copper Kettle' are good for small gardens.
Crab apples are another superb choice, with some cultivars – such as Malus x zumi 'Professor Sprenger'
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