According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, more and more of birds' natural habitat is being converted to private land, making it all the more important to provide a habitat that birds can visit. When you create a bird garden, you create not only a place for birds, you also create an opportunity to introduce your children to birds and nature.
Attract the Hummingbirds
- Plants that have flowers that are tubular shaped in the colors of pink, red, purple and orange attract hummingbirds that like to feed with their long tongues and beaks. Such flowers include salvia, trumpet creeper and coral honeysuckle. Other flowers hummingbirds like are bee balm, butterfly bush and Turk's cap. Add a hummingbird feeder to your garden, and you will have hummingbirds coming back every year.
Plants with Seeds
- Another idea for a bird garden is one that is full of plants that produce seeds birds can eat. Flowers like daisies and black-eye Susans not only produce seeds the birds will like, but the added benefit is that butterflies will like them also. Bunchgrasses also produce a lot of seeds that birds like; additionally these grasses provide material the birds can use for their nests.
Nesting Opportunities
- If you don't like to do a lot of planting, you can still have a bird garden by providing habitat that birds can enjoy and make use of such as birdhouses and bird feeders. If you can, plant a shrub or a tree, both of which birds can use for nesting.
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