But I truely love that the backyard birds hang out here and love my feathered friends. Back in 2001 I had a pretty typical looking suburban backyard with afew shrubs and a negected flower bed along the side of the house. I decided to change things. The first things I wanted were plants to attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. From that I branched out into redoing the south property line into a shrub border to hide my neighbors driveway and supply habitat to attract the songbirds and supply berries for the berry eating birds. This border continues in an unbroken u shape around about half my property. It is just loaded with shrubs and small bird attracting trees. It wasn't until much of this was done that I branched into more of the flowers. First off were the roses and then the lilies and finially the daylilies. So it all works together and the yard really is very pretty and very welcomeing to songbirds, butterflies, bees and small wildlife. I even have three small ponds so that there is always water for the birds and animals to have. Frogs often visit.
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