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Bird Watcher Plant Collection

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Invite songbirds to your garden with our Bird Watcher Plant Collection of 5. These native perennials offer nesting materials, shelter, and food to create bountiful bird habitat right in your back yard. Featuring Elderberry, Switchgrass, Echinacea, Ironweed, and Baptisia, this collection is ideal for a woodland edge or open area of the garden. Fill your garden with visual interest and flying friends all year round.

Bird Watcher Plant Collection

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Our Bird Watcher Plant Collection is a great option for enhancing bird habitat in your existing garden, or giving you a head start when planting a new garden. Repeat the collection to fill larger spaces. Switchgrass provides nesting habitat, shelter, and foraging ground for birds, and is known to attract Dark-eyed Juncos, White-throated Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows, Song Sparrows, and Lark Sparrows. Ironweed and Echinacea provide small fiber nesting materials, and will attract beneficial insects as food for birds; when flowers fade, seeds provide another food source. Ironweed and Echinacea attract House Finches, Purple Finches, Cassin’s Finches, American Goldfinches, Lesser Goldfinches, and Pine Siskins. Baptisia not only provides more pollinator-attracting nectar and plentiful seedpods, but also feeds the soil as a nitrogen-fixing legume. Elderberry’s spring flowers attract pollinators, which are an important protein source for birds to feed their young; fall berries provide a good food source for adult birds; the shrub’s elegant branches provide year-round shelter for birds and visual interest to structure the garden. Elderberries attract Northern Cardinals, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Blue Grosbeaks, Scarlet Tanagers, and Western Tanagers. (Birding information via the Audubon Society.)

Our Bird Watcher Plant Collection covers roughly 61-100 sq ft and includes 5 plants:

Shipped as Potted Plants:
1 x 'Northwind' Switchgrass
1 x 'Magnus' Echinacea
1 x Common Ironweed
1 x Baptisia
1 x Wild Elderberry


*Plants are subject to change due to availability. If we make substitutions, we feature plants with similar attributes suitable to the garden/collection design.


You may also be interested in our Bird Watcher Native Shrub Collection and our Bird Watcher Native Pre-Planned Garden.

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As soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat.  The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. All perennials and fall-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included.

Perennials and fall-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your Growing Zone. Perennial and fall-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. If your order requires more than one shipment and all items are shipping to the same address, there is no additional shipping charge. See our shipping information page for approximate ship dates and more detailed information. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at (802) 227-7200 or contact us by email or chat.

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key features

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Advantages
  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Birds
  • Long Bloom Time
  • Mass Plantings
  • Native
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Light Requirements
  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade
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Bloom Time
Early summer through fall.

Additional information

Planting Time
  • Fall
Soil Moisture
  • Average
  • Moist / Wet
Soil Type
  • Average Soil
  • Loamy Soil
Mature Height
Heights range from 3-10 ft tall
Mature Spread
Covers approximately 61-100 sq ft
Planting Depth
For potted plants, the base of the stem(s) should be just at the soil surface after watering in.  For bare roots, the top of the root should be 1" below the soil line
Growing Zones
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9
Native To
North America
Neonicotinoid Free
Yes
Non-GMO
No
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