Invite birds to your yard in a delightful, colorful way.
Invite flocks to your backyard by including berry plants for birds in your landscape.
It spreads by suckering and is agood choice for a hedge.
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Thechokeberry shrubis alsonative to many parts of the country, so it’s especially good for supporting local wildlife.
It produces bright scarlet berries in autumn andhas a red fall colorthat makes for an attractive informal hedge.
Female plants offer blue berrylike cones that many species of birds eat.
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Staghorn sumacmay be too aggressive of a spreaderfor most gardens.
Be sure to plant it in a spot where it can create a thicket.
Branches covered with bright red fruit attract mockingbirds, robins, and other birds.
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Crabapple
Most gardeners growcrabapples(Malusselections) for the ornamental value of their spring blooms.
The fruits, however, are the apples of birds' eyes.
Toattract the greatest variety of songbirds,select cultivars with small fruitsthat hang on through the winter.
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And it lights up the landscape with its bright red-orange fall color, too.
Beautyberry thrives in light shade but produces more berries in a sunny spot.
This plant grows as a small tree or large shrub, depending on the variety.
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They range from 4 to 25 feet tall, but all offerpretty springtime bloomsand eye-catching fall colors.
Most are native to North America.
It features pretty, creamy white flower clusters in early summer.
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In late summer and autumn, bunches of blue-black berries appear.
Plant near other viburnums to ensure good pollination.
This small tree is best suited for the edges of woodland areas or shady gardens.
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Pagoda dogwood has a striking horizontal branching habit.
Creamy white flower clusters appear above the leaves in spring.
Nannyberry can bepruned to form a hedgeor grown at the back of a border.
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The berries ripen to blue-black and last well into winter to feed birds.
you could choose from compact, upright shrubs toeasy groundcoversto big plants ideal for hedges.
The berries are preceded by white flowers in summer.
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The most common pop in of rose used toproduce rose hipsisRosa canina.
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