These alternatives will attract birds to your landscape for shelter and food without harming the environment.
Birds and other animals spread the seeds around after feeding on the small reddish-purple fruit in gardens.
The best way to keep burning bush under control is to avoid planting it at all.
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Instead, consider planting something from this list of attractive non-invasive alternatives.
Some arenative plants that bring additional reasonsto use beyond their beauty and their polite interaction with the greater environment.
They attract birds and butterflies by offering food and shelter.
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They all have beautiful fall color.
The green leaves can have a reddish tinge during the spring and summer and turn red in the fall.
Thisdeer-resistant shrubattracts butterflies, pollinators, and hummingbirds.
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Use in shrub borders and naturalized areas.
Prune in the winter.
Dwarf bush honeysuckle spreads slowly by root suckers (vertical growth from the root system).
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Puffy creamy-white blossoms resemble bottle brushes and bloom in April and May with a honey-scented fragrance.
Foliage, dark green on top and bluish-green beneath, turns yellow, orange, and red in fall.
The shrubs suckers aggressively, sending out roots that grow stems.
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Leave enough room in your beds for this growth.
This plant tolerates a variety of soils, is low maintenance, and spreads slowly by root suckers.
Use it as a screen, in natural areas,and in hedges.
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The fragrant, pink flowers change to white when they are fully open.
Like for other spring-blooming shrubs,prune the Koreanspice viburnum right after floweringto assure flower formation the following year.
This low-maintenance shrub shows fall color in shades of red.
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Small pinkish-white flowers appear in spring.
A summer mulch will help retain soil moisture.
The gardener is rewarded with pyramidal panicles of white flowers in summer.
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The large, oak-like, lobed leaves turn from dark green to shades of red in the fall.
The uneaten berries remain on the shrub into the winter,adding a little color to the landscape.
This large shrub has a multi-stem form that slowly spreads by rhizomes, creating cover for birds and screening.
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Flowers appear in upright clusters after the leaves emerge in late spring to early summer.
The shrub produces dark purple fruit that will attract wildlife to your yard.
It also has striking fall color, with leaves turning shades of red, orange, and yellow.
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Your garden center labels these plants accordingly to help you choose the right ones.
Prune to shape in early spring.
In the spring, creamy-whitefragrant flowers attract beesand other beneficial insects.
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The flowers mature into green berries that change from pink to blue.
Glossy green leaves cover the plant in the summer.
In the fall they turn burgundy red.The shrub provides excellent screeningand has a growth habit perfect for shrub borders.
