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Catalog: Plants for BirdsPlants for birds provide places for birds to rest, perch and hide from predators; nest and raise their young; and find shelter from the weather. We offer a good selection of some of the best shrubs available for birds. Most are native and can be grown in hardiness Zones 3-9. Plants are shipped bareroot (no soil or pot) and dormant (no foliage) from early April to mid May.
Other Flowering Shrubs
Birds attracted to fruiting plants in your backyard include:
To learn more about creating a bird garden, visit our Gardening for Birds page. What's a "bareroot" plant?
Bareroot plants are easy to grow. We include planting instructions with your order. When you receive your plant, take it out of the packing material and place it in a bucket of water so that the roots are completely covered. Let the roots soak for 4 to 24 hours, then plant it in your garden. Full planting instructions with photos are available on our Planting Shrubs page. Help Protect our Migratory Birds!Buy fair-trade certified coffee and help support the farmers that care for our migratory birds in the winter. Learn more at the following Web sites:
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The
plants we offer are a natural food source for our backyard birds.
These flowering and fruiting plants add beauty to your garden, along
with dimension and texture. A garden full of perennials is beautiful,
but add a flowering/fruiting shrub, and everything changes. Suddenly,
your eyes are drawn up and given something different to view. Birds
will seek shelter in shrubs and will delight and suprise you as
you discover their nests. Shrubs complement and tie together the
rest of the garden by providing the structure or "bones"
-- the foundation on which to build the rest of your garden. 
"Bareroot"
is a term that describes how a plant is shipped to you. A bareroot
plant is not in a pot, and is usually dormant (not actively growing).
See the photo to the right that shows what a bareroot rose looks
like. The bareroot plants that we ship to you were harvested in
the fall and placed in cold storage over the winter to keep them
dormant. In the spring, we ship the bareroot plants to our customers,
from early April through mid May.
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
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