b'3PLAN ABIRD-FRIENDLYBACKYARDThe entertaining chickadees that frequent your bird feeder are fun to watch,but they also play a key role in keeping the environment healthy. In exchange for food and shelter, birds provide us with free pest control services and fertilizer.They help to balance the food chain by taking care of mice, moles, voles andinsects that multiply rapidly. Youll need fewer pesticides when birds dothat important work for you.BIRD-FRIENDLY BACKYARDS INCLUDE FOUR VITAL ELEMENTS: FoodNative plants like winterberry, false sunflower, coneflower and falseindigo are natures own bird feeders. Chokeberries and juniper berries arequickly consumed in summer and fall. WaterKeep your bird baths clean to maintain a reliable source of freshwater for drinking, bathing and cooling off.6 ShelterDense deciduous and evergreen shrubs like arborvitaes, junipersand elderberries in addition to grasses, tall ferns and trees give birds a placeto safely hide and find shelter in inclement weather.Place to rear youngIn addition to nesting in native trees and shrubs,birdhouses that have good ventilation, adequate drainage and can easilybe cleaned out will all support local bird populations. Click here to find our recommendations for landscape plants that birds love.91: TUFF STUFF Hydrangea serrata Coast to Coast Hosta Allium (Mountain Hydrangea) and SHADOWLAND2: Serendipity(Ornamental Onion), COLOR CODED The Price is White Echinacea Heliopsis(Coneflower) and TUSCAN GOLD (False Sunflower) 3: GIN FIZZ Juniperus Aronia Ilex(Juniper) berries4: LOW SCAPE MOUND5: BERRY POPPINS (Winterberry Holly) 6: HEART TO HEART Lemon Blush Caladium Baptisia7: DECADENCE(False Indigo) seedheads8: PERFECTO MUNDOEPIC PINK Rhododendron Hydrangea paniculata(Reblooming Azalea), TINY QUICK FIRE (Panicle Hydrangea) and BLACK LACE (Elderberry) pruned into a tree9: Hummingbird with PURPLE PILLAR (Rose of Sharon)Sambucus Hibiscus 10: COLOR CODED Echinacea (Coneflower) seedheads 3110'