{"id":10323,"date":"2014-03-27T00:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2017-12-16T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:32:18","slug":"berry-bushes-for-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/berry-bushes-for-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Berry Bushes for Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"cotoneaster berries by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4043270253\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2564\/4043270253_8d1f6231fd.jpg\" alt=\"cotoneaster berries\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you like birds in your garden encourage them with appropriate plants.<\/p>\n<p>Some birds like the seeds in the berry others are keen on the fruit as a whole. Fieldfare, redwings blackbirds thrush and sparrows are just some birds that like a berry good feed.<\/p>\n<h2>Deciduous Berry Bushes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Berberia thunbergii will thrive in full sun producing small flowers and long lasting red berries.<\/li>\n<li>Dog woods like cornus alba will produce creamy white flowers followed by grey coloured berries. Cornus florida is a tree rather than shrub with red berries.<\/li>\n<li>Malus floribunda or Crab Apples are potentially very decorative and produce an abundance of fruit.<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Ash or Sorbus aucuparia is a small tree with sprays of orange or red berries in autumn.<\/li>\n<li>Viburnum trilobum has glossy leaves turning red in autumn. The berries are bright scarlet.<\/li>\n<li>Most of these berry bearing bushes have good autumn leaf colour. They all earn there place in the garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"Mahonia Oregan Grape by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6085870082\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6079\/6085870082_ae8ecbc9c6.jpg\" alt=\"Mahonia Oregan Grape\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Other Berry Plants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Cotoneasters horizontalis or the vertical Cotoneaster bullatus keep there berries into late winter when bird food is scarece.<\/li>\n<li>The Elder, Sambucus nigra has elderflowers that can be made into wine but then the black berries will not be there to feed the birds.<\/li>\n<li>Holly, Ilex aquifolium is a well known evergreen that needs a male and female plant to produce lush red berries.<\/li>\n<li>Ivy Hedera helix and Dog Roses also fruit for birds.<\/li>\n<li>Daphne mezereum and Honeysuckles are grown for the scented flowers but also produce berries.<\/li>\n<li>Pyracanth, Hawthorn, Blackthorn the list can continue for a\u00c2\u00a0 longtime. Give the birds a treat and see what species you attract.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Berrys by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3079535459\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3251\/3079535459_f41bc33414.jpg\" alt=\"Berrys\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit and berries for birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18995,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions\/18995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}