Flower Butterfly
2011
Create a Flower Garden That Draws the Birds and Bees
Flower gardening truly is an art. With each seasonal garden, you will come up with more ideas on how to enhance your backyard ecosystem. Many people enjoy reading about gardening tips on how to attract wildlife to their gardens. As a child, you may recall chasing yellow, orange and white butterflies, but perhaps you seldom see them anymore. Most of us remember our first glimpse of a tiny, delicate hummingbird or the first time a dragonfly touched our skin while we were floating on a raft at the lake. Certain plants are dynamos for luring these wonderful creatures to our back doorsteps. While you are free to incorporate whatever flowers you’d like into your garden, adding a few carefully chosen wildlife favorites will give you much more to gaze upon.
If you’re considering creating a garden that will attract song birds, then you can incorporate several special bushes, perennials, annuals, native and cultivated vegetation to draw them to your backyard. By cultivating plants from each classification, you can provide seeds and fruit for all seasons to keep the birds chirping all year long. Make sure to provide a bird bath and throw seeds around in the wintertime to keep your bird family content.
As well, consider the fact that, as well as your flowers, birds like trees for protection, nesting and shelter from the weather conditions. Frequently the trees also provide food such as sap, seeds and berries. You can consider leaf bearing trees like dogwood, red mulberry, American mountain ash, sassafras, hazelnut, chestnut and black walnut, in addition to coniferous trees like red cedar, blue spruce, American holly white cedar, Douglas fir, California juniper and ponderosa pine.
You may want to also consider flower gardening to attract red ladybugs and dragonflies too. These carnivores will eat the unsightly aphids, beetles, flies, mosquitoes and other pesky creatures that are doing damage to your garden. Favorite ladybug dinners include cilantro, dill, fennel, chamomile, cosmos, geraniums, penstemon, yarrow and coreopsis. Water gardens that are generally shallow but two feet deep in the center are the best way to lure dragonflies, who enjoy a cool swim and places to hide beneath garden plants. They also like pond lilies, buttonbush, seedbox and horsetail rush, as these provide the sort of cover dragonflies like.
Naturally, flower gardening to attract both hummingbirds and butterflies is ideal. Gardening tips suggest incorporating bee balm, California fuschia, salvia, columbines, daisies, sunflowers, marigolds, zinnias, peas, clover, mint, milkweed, parsley, violets and pansiesthe to increase your odds of keeping these creatures nearby. Nature stores also sell very effective red and yellow hummingbird feeders that these little winged beauties just love. Since hummingbirds can be pretty territorial, you might want to set up more than one in different locations around the yard if you notice the birds are coming to your home.
Your house may be beautiful, but if the surrounding area isn’t well maintained, it ruins the whole effect. Home gardening can make a tremendous difference in the appearance of your property. Visit the Landscaping Ideas site for some fabulous ideas to add class and style to your property.
The Butterfly and The Flower
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