Attracting birds to your garden is all about choosing the plants which provide food and shelter for garden birds. Plants with berries are particularly important, and hollies and viburnum are bird food favourites.
Holly is a great plant for your bird garden.
Holly provides excellent protection for nesting birds.Thrushes, robins, dunnocks, finches and goldcrests all like to nest in holly bushes and trees.
Holly berries also provide an important food source for birds throughout the winter months. Birds which like to eat the berries include blackbirds, redwings, mistle and song thrushes.
Roses are another good choice for a bird friendly garden. If you don't deadhead the roses, this will allow rosehips to form. Rosa rugosa is a particularly good choice for birds and finches and other birds will love to eat the hips.
Euonymus europaeus, or Spindle is a classic bird friendly plant. As well as showing ornamental leaf colour in the autumn, the spindle has unusual bright orange and pink berries which remain long after the autumn leaves have fallen. The spindle berries provide great food for birds and this medium sized shrub will fit in most gardens.
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