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  • From: "Tom Ogren" <tloallergyfree@earthlink.net>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Shrubs for birds
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:02:22 -0700

Out West here, in the mild winter climes, one of our best bird bushes, or
small trees, is the pineapple guava, Feijoa sellowiana. The birds don't eat
the fruit (I eat those!) but they (especially mockingbirds, western
tanagers, and orioles) love the flowers' sweet, fleshy petals. I've grown
these guavas for years and almost never see any sort of insect visiting the
flowers, and assume that it is the birds that are pollinating the plants, as
they yank on the petals, they move the pollen around.

Tom Ogren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen York" <kareny@rogers.com>
To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Shrubs for birds


> Melanie,
>
> Pagoda and grey dogwoods (Cornus alternifolia and C. racemosa) and
> serviceberries (Amelanchier) are the most popular plants with the birds in
> my garden. The grey dogwood does sucker but the others are very well
> behaved. I have a green cutleaf elder which doesn't seem to sucker quite
as
> vigorously as some of its relations.
>
> Blue jays nest in our spruce and yew; the mourning doves prefer the
Austrian
> pine; the cardinals go for the umbrella pine (though one year they nested
in
> the clematis right beside my kitchen window - what a treat) and the robins
> and wrens fight it out for a spot in the climbing hydrangea.
>
> Karen
> Mississauga, Ontario Zone 6b
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