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About Hardy Shrub Roses
About Heathers
About Flowering Crabs
wildlife habitat
Annuals Biennials Perennials
Culinary Herbs
The Healing Herbs
The Fragrant Herbs
Shakespearean and Bible Herbs
Do you Really Need A Tiller
Insect Attack
Flowers for Cutting
Pruning Pointers
Houseplants Clean the Air
Recipes Fresh from the Garden
The Gold Plated Gardener
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| Wildlife Habitat |
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| Many of our customers have asked about plants that will attract wildlife by offering food or shelter. Any planting--wild or cultivated--that provides nuts, seeds, berries, fruits, grasses, and places for protection (all reasonably close to each other), will furnish habitat for wildlife. General suggestions: Use a variety of trees, shrubs, and evergreens, since different species have different food and cover needs. A broad variety can furnish shelter and protection from winter winds, summer heat and predators for many species. When possible, choose varieties that produce nuts, berries or seeds. Also where possible, leave some dead trees to provide nesting or perching sites. Water is important for all wildlife. A pond, stream, water garden or even a simple birdbath will help attract critters to your back yard. There are several tall ornamental grasses with lovely seed heads that can accent a water feature and also provide cover for wildlife. Following are some suggestions for enticing particular critters to your neighborhood. Butterflies: butterfly bush, butterfly weed, sweet william, honeysuckle vine, bee balm, boltonia, solidago, snapdragons, salvia, zinnia, nicotiana, mexican sunflower. Birds: cherries, strawberries, blueberries (which are also ornamental, turning brilliant red in fall), barberry, winterberry, honeysuckle. Highbush cranberry, flowering crabapple, and European mountain ash are lovely ornamentals that produce fruit the birds will feed on through winter. Untreated wood birdhouses (without perches) and bat houses also help entice desired species to your neighborhood. Hummingbirds: bee balm, coral bells, petunia, impatiens, sweetpea (annual or perennial), delphinium, weigela, daylilies, butterfly bush, perennial salvias, phlox, penstemon, nicotiana. Deer: Any apple, especially edible crabapple; deer also love to nibble on arborvitae (cedar). Other critters: partridge, hares & rabbits, squirrels, fox, porcupine, fisher and bobcat, all feed on apples and need cover. Ask us for specific suggestions this spring! |
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