Songbirds are attracted to your yard that provides foods and habitat. Berry- trees provide these two requirements. Provide your lawn spring flowers, fall color and winter curiosity by planting deciduous and evergreen trees with all the birds in brain. Spring- trees create crops of berries, where as winter or drop berries are produced by later trees. Plant types that are diverse to offer a food resource throughout each period of the year.
Evergreen Trees
Foster is a broad-leaf evergreen tree that grows in a narrow type, achieving a height of 25 to 30-feet. Each fall, a crop of berries is made and persists through the winter, providing food. This grows in the Environment Zones 2a through 2-4. of Sunset The yaupon is a little tree with branches when pollinated by way of a male plant, bearing abundantly. This little tree grows in lots of different kinds of soil in sun or part-shade in Sunset’s Environment Zones H1, H2, 3a, 3b and 4 through 2-4.
Dogwoods
After flowering in spring, offering an early-season offer of berries for birds, dogwoods create berries. In a Mediterranean-type environment, Pacific dogwood blooms with flowers that are larger than types that are dogwood. Plant Pacific dogwood in the Environment Zones 3b through of Sunset 9 and 14 through Dry summer climate to prosper this plant wants. Pacific dogwood is available in white.
Deciduous Trees
Hackberry grows 70 feet tall in various city configurations and soils. This tree tolerates dry conditions. It thrives in Sunset’s Environment Zones 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b and 4 through 2-4. Yellow berries or red turn purple in the fall. Mountain ash is a wide spreading tree growing 1-0 to 50-feet tall with fern-like leaflets. As it thrives best where its roots stay great this tree isn’t for the city environment. White flowers in spring generate clusters of berries ranging from pink to red. Mountain ash in the Environment of Sunset Zones 1 through 14 and 10 .
Crabapples
Crabapples create fruit that’s edible, but its actual worth is in little fruits which can be attractive to birds and its spring flowers. Many types of crabapple trees are accessible for Sunset’s Environment Zones A2, A3, 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b and 4 through 21. Plant crab apples in part-shade or full-sun in soil which is slightly acid to neutral pH. This little tree h-AS a spread nearly add up to its peak and grows 2 to 2 5 feet tall.