Campbell & Ferrara Outdoor Living®


ATTRACT BIRDS & BUTTERFLIES TO YOUR GARDEN

By installing and regularly filling a variety of birdfeeders in your yard; you’ll surely attract bluejays, cardinals, Carolina wrens and chickadees. By increasing the number of native species in your landscape, you’ll also draw such winged-wonders as northern flickers, brown thrashers, red-eyed vireos and towhees to your garden.

To help you plan a “bird friendly” landscape, a partial list of recommended plants and the birds they attract is listed below.  Our plant experts at the Garden Center & our landscape designers in the landscape office are ready to assist you!
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Evergreen Trees:                                Attracts:

Spruce (Picea)                                       evening grosbeak, red-breasted nuthatch, crossbills
Arborvitae (Thuja)                                 pine siskin, American robin, house finch

Deciduous Trees:                               Attracts:

Sweetgum (Liquidambar)                        red-winged blackbird, cardinal, mourning dove
Red Maple (Acer rubrum)                      evening grosbeak


Small Deciduous Trees:                     Attracts:

White Fringtree (Chionanthus)              pileated woodpecker
Serviceberry (Amelanchier)                  downy woodpecker, red-eyed vireo, wood thrush


Shrubs:                                             Attracts

Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)               northern bobwhite, northern flicker
Rugosa Rose                                      eastern bluejay and 20 other species
Weigela (Weigela florida)                    ruby-throated hummingbird
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)               mockingbird, brown thrasher, black-capped chickadee
Honeysuckle                                       hummingbirds
Viburnum                                           all berry eating birds


Groundcovers:                                 Attracts:

Cotoneaster (C. horizontalis)              rufous-sided towhee, American robin, thrasher
Carpet Bugleweed (Ajuga)                 hummingbird

Perennials:                                      Attracts:

Lilium                                              Hummingbirds, butterflies
Coneflower                                     Hummingbirds, butterflies
Daisies                                            Hummingbirds, butterflies
Asters                                             Hummingbirds, butterflies
Pentstemon                                     Hummingbirds, butterflies
Lamb's Ear                                     Hummingbirds, butterflies