Ted Watt - Gardening for the Birds
Gardening for the Birds – Recommended Plants
Ted Watt, March, 2020
⦿ Toxicodendron radicans (Poison Ivy!!!)
⦿ Cup-plant or Rosinweed (Silphium perfoliatum)
⦿ Purple coneflower (Echinacea species and fertile cultivars)
⦿ Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia species/cultivars)
⦿ Native asters and goldenrods
⦿ Coreopsis species and fertile cultivars
⦿ Cosmos
⦿ Sunflowers – many species and cultivars
⦿ Switch Panicgrass (Panicum virgatum)
⦿ Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
Nut and Seed-bearing Trees and Shrubs
⦿ American Beech (Fagus grandifolia - some genotypes appear to be resistant to the beech bark disease)
⦿ American and Hop Hornbeams (Carpinus caroliniana & Ostrya virginiana)
⦿ American larch (Larix laricinia)
⦿ Elms (Ulmus - Dutch Elm Disease resistant cultivars)
⦿ Native Hazelnuts (Corylus americana or cornuta) Fruit Bearers
⦿ Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)
⦿ Juneberry, Shadbush (Amelanchier species)
⦿ Blackberries & Raspberries (Rubus species)
⦿ Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
⦿ Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
⦿ Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
⦿ Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
⦿ Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
⦿ Strawberries (Fragaria species)
⦿ Crabapples (Malus species)
⦿ American Mountain-Ash (Sorbus americana)
⦿ Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
⦿ Alternate-leaved Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)
⦿ Eastern Red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
⦿ Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
⦿ Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)
⦿ Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
⦿ Sumacs (Rhus typhina & R. glabra)
Nectar Bearers
⦿ Beebalms ( Monarda species and cultivars)
⦿ Wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
⦿ Coral Bells (Heuchera species)
⦿ Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
⦿ Scarlet Sage (Salvia splendens)
⦿ Pentas
⦿ Summer Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata) ⦿ Daylilies (Hemerocallis varieties)
⦿ Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
⦿ Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
⦿ Native Lily species (Lilium sp)
⦿ Scarlet Trumpet Honeyusuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
⦿ Beard-tongues (Penstemon species)
⦿ Catmint (Nepeta species)
⦿ Bluebells-of-Scotland (Campanula rotundifolia)
⦿ Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana alata)
⦿ Larkspurs & Delphiniums
⦿ Siberian and Blue Flag Iris