Tips for a Flower Garden That Attracts Wildlife
Organic gardens involve the use of all-natural compost, garden tools and pest deterrents. When you’re flower gardening, you may want to consider creating an ecosystem where wildlife and other animals can thrive. Perhaps you enjoy the wonderment of walking through the garden and seeing ladybugs, praying mantises, dragonflies, hummingbirds and butterflies enjoying your natural creation as much as you do. Here are some gardening tips to create an enduring, wildlife-friendly garden.
If you’re considering designing a garden that will catch the attention of song birds, then you can incorporate a few special shrubs, perennials, annuals, native and cultivated plants to attract them to your property. By cultivating plants from each classification, you can provide seeds and fruit for all seasons to keep the birds singing all year long. Make sure to add a bird bath and put seeds out in the winter to keep your bird family content.
Moreover, consider the fact that, along with your blooms, birds like trees for safety, nesting and refuge from the elements. Sometimes the trees also provide food such as sap, seeds and berries. You can consider leaf bearing trees like black walnut, red mulberry, dogwood, sassafras, American mountain ash, chestnut, and hazelnut, as well as coniferous trees such as American holly, red cedar, blue spruce, Douglas fir, white cedar, ponderosa pine and California juniper.
Flower gardening is an important source of food for sparrows, finches and other songbirds. You can try perennials like penstemon, tickseed, bee balm, goldenrod, cosmos, purple coneflower and four o’ clocks, or you may try annuals like sunflowers, asters, bachelor’s button, spider flower, snapdragons and cockscomb. Garden guides also recommend planting shrubs and vines where birds can hide from predators and seek out food. Some tasty plants (like cherries and raspberries) are preferable to our flying friends, but they’re picked clean in a hurry. On the other hand, birds can be seen feasting all year long on elderberries, blackberries, huckleberries, chokecherries, bayberries, Oregon grapes, beauty-berries, silver-berries, blueberries, crab apples, cranberries and currants all year long.
If you’re flower gardening to attract butterflies, then you will need a place for the insects to gather water, to seek solace from the sun and predators, as well as sources to breed and feed. With the exception of monarchs and other migrators, butterflies generally don’t like to migrate too far from what they need, so if your yard has it all, you’re likely to keep these beautiful insects around. Garden supplies stores online sometimes sell butterflies from farms that you can let loose in your backyard once it’s all set up to jumpstart the process.
Everyone wants their property to look its best and one of the ways to do that is to enhance your landscaping. For some great garden tips and suggestions on how to get the backyard of your dreams, check out more landscaping gardening ideas here.
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