redecorate garden

[veer]

This spring, my husband and I want to redesign our garden. Although piece by piece because it all costs a lot of money. We want to create a bird-friendly, bee and butterfly-friendly garden. I have seen many examples on pinterest.
But my question is, which trees / bushes are there in your garden where birds like to hide in the winter.

For the butterflies and bees, my husband produces enough flowers every year, but we mainly want to make a "wild" garden.
Especially the border of flowers we already know what we want, but it is mainly the bushes and trees that do not have a good idea.

I have a rectangular garden, which is not that big but which we can make something beautiful.
Someone good ideas, how does your garden look like ?

 

[Jeannette]

We have those trees that have red and orange berries when the Summer ends. One of them is "hulst".
The birds love those berries and often hide in these trees and sometimes I even think they are playing in them. By the end of fall they have eaten all the berries, but they still love the trees.

 

[Jeannette]

My garden is an awfull mess. I've not been able to work in the garden these last two years and my DH is convinced a garden is to sit and relax in, not to work in.
I plann to redo the garden this spring. We also have a, not too big, rectangled garden. Grass, but surrounded by trees and borders.
I would love to have some flowers and vegetables. Three years ago I had tomatoes. They were wonderfull and I was about to pick them, only to find out our dog loved them too. He ate all my tomatoes!!!

 

[VickiStegall]

We have some red tipped photinia's that are beautiful, very hardy and the birds seem to like them as well.

 

[Marjoleine]

I don't have a garden, just a small balcony :sad: But I do have a lovely balcony. We redid the balcony last year and I love to sit there in the summer, it's very cozy.

I would love a garden though, although I hate gardening, so I also need minions to work the garden. :laugh: But I would really like to be able to BBQ and that is not possible on my balcony.

 

[veer]

We have those trees that have red and orange berries when the Summer ends. One of them is "hulst".
The birds love those berries and often hide in these trees and sometimes I even think they are playing in them. By the end of fall they have eaten all the berries, but they still love the trees.

Hulst i know, i always hated that because you can hurt you so badly, but maybe just a little bush

 

[veer]

I don't have a garden, just a small balcony :sad: But I do have a lovely balcony. We redid the balcony last year and I love to sit there in the summer, it's very cozy.

I would love a garden though, although I hate gardening, so I also need minions to work the garden. :laugh: But I would really like to be able to BBQ and that is not possible on my balcony.

Well i think i love the idea of the minions :bounce:

 

[veer]

We have some red tipped photinia's that are beautiful, very hardy and the birds seem to like them as well.

Oh, I know that bush, nice colors too! Keep that in mind !

 

[veer]

My garden is an awfull mess. I've not been able to work in the garden these last two years and my DH is convinced a garden is to sit and relax in, not to work in.
I plann to redo the garden this spring. We also have a, not too big, rectangled garden. Grass, but surrounded by trees and borders.
I would love to have some flowers and vegetables. Three years ago I had tomatoes. They were wonderfull and I was about to pick them, only to find out our dog loved them too. He ate all my tomatoes!!!

LOL then it was tasty tomatoes !

 

[faerywings]

I love gardening. It is truly one of my favorite things to do. The sad part is that my yard isn't very conducive to it. We have very rocky and iron-filled soil (if you can call it soil LOL) and we are surrounded by forest on two sides of my house. I have small little gardens all around the house. Almost everything I grow is perennials so I am able to split them and move them to new areas as they take over a section.

Usually, for my birthday, I will ask for a flat of impatiens and plant them in buckets on my steps for some color. We also try to grow some veggies- tomatoes, peppers, some herbs. Last year, we grew cucumbers and I made pickles out of them.

I always put down wildflower flower seeds for butterflies and we have a bee house by the front of my house to help attract pollinators.

I cannot wait to get started. Spring cannot come soon enough!

 

[marijke]

I only have a mini garden with some grass and some flowers ... and I do not have green fingers either ... I can not help you ...
Have you ever visited the website of natuurpunt? https://www.natuurpunt.be/pagina/acties-voor-een-tuin-vol-leven

 

[taxed4ever]

Do you live in an area where you can grow Azalea bushes or Rhododendrons? The hummingbirds love to hide in the Rhodos and my Hydrangea Bush. The Hydrangea should not be cut back until the spring, so the dead blossoms are a great place for the birds to hide in.

 

[veer]

Do you live in an area where you can grow Azalea bushes or Rhododendrons? The hummingbirds love to hide in the Rhodos and my Hydrangea Bush. The Hydrangea should not be cut back until the spring, so the dead blossoms are a great place for the birds to hide in.

I live in a neighborhood where there are few trees, many new houses built, that's why I want to plant trees myself to attract the birds again.
I have rhododendron and also azalea, but let's not really make them big, maybe even do it then

 

[veer]

I only have a mini garden with some grass and some flowers ... and I do not have green fingers either ... I can not help you ...
Have you ever visited the website of natuurpunt? https://www.natuurpunt.be/pagina/acties-voor-een-tuin-vol-leven

I had already been looking Marijke on their site, I think they also sell trees in the spring

 

[veer]

I love gardening. It is truly one of my favorite things to do. The sad part is that my yard isn't very conducive to it. We have very rocky and iron-filled soil (if you can call it soil LOL) and we are surrounded by forest on two sides of my house. I have small little gardens all around the house. Almost everything I grow is perennials so I am able to split them and move them to new areas as they take over a section.

Usually, for my birthday, I will ask for a flat of impatiens and plant them in buckets on my steps for some color. We also try to grow some veggies- tomatoes, peppers, some herbs. Last year, we grew cucumbers and I made pickles out of them.

I always put down wildflower flower seeds for butterflies and we have a bee house by the front of my house to help attract pollinators.

I cannot wait to get started. Spring cannot come soon enough!

We also have many perennials, but we also buy annuals every year. Nowadays you just do not have the hassle of putting those seed mats in the ground, and let nature do its job

http://seedsfromholland.com/images1..._Mixture_-_Zaadmat_Border_Bloemen_Mengsel.jpg

 

[faerywings]

Vera, I have tried those seed mats before and never had any luck, which was too bad because the concept of them is terrific. I think it is because the dirt/soil I have is terrible. The seed packets I get are usually from "Save the Bees" programs and there is a mixture of annuals and perennials in them. So whatever pops up is good for me.


By the way, we have mint- several kinds of mint. Apple, chocolate, spearmint. I don't like mint but Gary and Caitlyn do. A word of warning to anyone who wants to grow mint. Put in in buckets. It will take over your gardens. Quickly. As in a blink of the eye.
On a good note, bees love the mint when it goes to flower so there is that.

 

[veer]

ah okay, maybe sow some mint, in a pot (although I do not like mint) but everything for the bees

 

[Danesa]

My hummingbirds love my clematis plant that I have around my lamp post out front. Love the early morning sun and late afternoon shade. The blooms are beautiful. It comes back year after year and no maintenance.

 

[faerywings]

I adore clematis but I haven't had much luck growing it. I think it needs more sun than my yard gets. Do you get a lot of sun, Danesa?

 

[veer]

My hummingbirds love my clematis plant that I have around my lamp post out front. Love the early morning sun and late afternoon shade. The blooms are beautiful. It comes back year after year and no maintenance.

I do have clematis (other color) but we don't have hummingbirds in my garden, or not in Belgium i think

 

[Danesa]

I do have clematis (other color) but we don't have hummingbirds in my garden, or not in Belgium i think

Chris, yes, it has sunrise until about 2pm sunshine. It loves the sun apparently. I have it wound around my lamppost but the front sidewalk, so I have view from the front of the house and watch my little birdies coming "home." I also have hummer feeders intertwined with it to entice them even further.

 

[Scrapmemories]

I so want a garden but I have very little yard and south Florida summers are brutally hot. Our best grow time would be Oct planting until April -May. So I've missed out on much of the opportunity. I once had a container garden and loved it. I was doing so well and then life got in the way