How to attract wild birds into your garden

How to attract birds to your garden.
Now is an excellent time to provide nesting, resting, feeding and breeding sites for birds in your garden.
The best feeding programme for birds is to plant shrubs and trees which offer nature's menu. Aloes, watsonias, lion’s ear (Leonotis spp.), red-hot pokers ( spp.) and wachendorfias will attract nectar feeding birds such as the sunbird. Seed eating birds are attracted to the seed heads of grasses and grains.
Plant patches of mixed bird seed and you'll be fascinated to see the response from local birds. Seed eaters also thrive the seeds of ordinary daisies (such as the euryops daisy).
Leave the dried out dead heads of daisies for as long as you can to give the birds time to take most of the seed at the end of summer.
To attract fruit eating birds, such as the loeries, plant fruit producing plants. Try the tree fuchsia (Halleria lucida), dune crow-berry (Rhus crenata) or white stinkwood (Celtis africana).Did you know that the local weavers, sparrows, loeries, sunbirds and even crested barbets will flock to your garden if you discover how to plant up bird-friendly plants or install a nesting box, bird feeder or bird bath in your garden. This is a basic guide on how to attract birds to your garden. Life is a garden.
Floradale Nurseries offer a wide range of bird loving plants.
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