Mystic Meadows Gardens
Bird Watchers Native Garden Kits- Coming soon
Bird Watchers Native Garden Kits- Coming soon
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These kits are Native, for Pollinators and specifically picked for the birds they attract.
Spring Plant Food: Many of the Native trees have spring blossoms that provide food for birds: oaks, hazels, beeches, butternuts, chestnuts, buckeyes, hickories and walnuts.
Summer plant food: cherry, chokecherry, raspberry, blueberry, elderberry,Autumn plant food: Purple Coneflower, dog wood, serviceberry Conifers : provide seeds native pines, spruces, junipers, cedars and arborvitae. Winter pant food: sumac, american cranberry viburnum, and winterberry
Spring, Summer & Autumn there are also many insects that they prefer to eat.
Nectar providers for birds: new england aster, rose/swamp milkweed, new jersey tea, button bush, bottle gentian, cardinal flower, bee balm, trumpet honeysuckle, columbine, salvia, elderberry, Lemon Mint
Fruit providers for birds: viburnum, downy serviceberry, chokecherry, raspberry, blueberry, elderberry, American cranberrybush viburnum, winterberry, staghorn & fragrant sumac, dogwood, cherry, Eastern Red Cedar
Seed providers for birds: Pale leafed Sunflower, Little & Big Bluestem, Indian Grass, Purple love grass, Fragrant and staghorn sumac, Purple coneflower, native pines, spruces, junipers, cedars and arborvitae Seed eating birds: Finches, chickadees, juncos, cardinals, sparrows, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and titmice, among others.
Hummingbirds and orioles are attracted to nectar producing flowers with tube shaped blooms: columbine, monkey flower, milkweed , trumpet honeysuckle, Blue Sage
Bird Gardens have native plants, fresh water, and bird houses. This is the best way you can attract birds to your yard without needing to use bird feeders that also bring the unwanted critters that are attracted to bird feeders. ( squirrels, chipmunks, mice, rats, and even black bears)
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