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Hello!
I am rather new to the RSPB community. I was wondering if anyone could advise me on what plants I can put in the garden in the spring to attract birds. I have a front garden which is mainly a drive, yet has a few borders and soil patches, one which has some rose bushes in it. I have a bird feeding station in my garden (thanks to a post which informed me they were in Aldi in £10, a very good buy!), which is attracting quite a few great tits and blue tits. Any advice would be great!
The winter is a good time to consider planting fruit and berry bearing trees or bushes in the garden. As well as the many native berry-bearing species (including rowan, holly, whitebeam, spindle, dog rose, guelder rose, elder, hawthorn, honeysuckle and ivy), attractive shrubs like cotoneaster, pyracantha and berberis are especially good for a wide range of birds.
Berry and fruit bearing trees provide food for a range of insects and animals, too: hedgehogs, badgers, mice, squirrels and even foxes will all happily feed on them. All sorts of fruit are attractive to insects, and if you leave them where they fall in the late summer and autumn they will attract numerous butterflies to their syrupy goodness.
Claire
pyracantha (fire thorns) are good ...flowers in summer berries in autumn and green in winter spiky though ...but can be clipped to fill any gap .... teasles are good birds love the seeds and globe artichokes to.... im sure theres a list somewhere on google ....ohh theres 1 on here lol ... www.rspb.org.uk/.../plants.aspx
Thanks I will try that!
Would a raspberry bush be any good? (they are my favourite fruit!)
Well I'll be! I hadn't seen this list until now---thank you!
Best,
Karin