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Birds Paradise Two
Birds Paradise is another landscape design you can create, and enjoy watching your favorite birds. This design is a little variation of the first Birds Paradise. The series of three rocks will help your birds rest or do a bit of sun bathing. Use your imagination if you want to generate more species to baths, feeders and houses. I use four different kinds of bird food. Thistle, a seed mixture, black sunflower seed gourmet, (the birds think they are fine dining) and a suet feeder. I put the suet feeder in a tree and woodpeckers love it, as well as a numbers of other birds. Below is the design key for this paradise. There are numbers so you can follow the shrubs and trees...
Birds Paradise Two
- Osmanthus - Tea Olive - small evergreen tree growing anywhere from eight to ten feet tall and four to six feet wide. Wonderful fragrant flowers appear in spring through fall. The Tea Olive has been known to bloom even through the winter months. It takes a normal watering program after the roots are established in the ground. Likes sun to part shade. Birds love to make their nests in the spring. The Tea Olive is also considered a paradise for our fine feathered friends. Grows will in zones seven through ten.
- Emerald Green Arborvitae - The Emerald Green Arborvitae is considered a small tree. It grows ten to twenty feet tall and three to five feet wide. This is a suburb specimen for privacy, and a great substitute for a Leyland Cypress. The Emerald green is an upright small tree. It can take full sun but also partial shade. Grows well in zones three through seven. The Emerald Green can be planted in a straight row or can be staggered in an odd number. Plant anywhere from five to seven feet apart. This small tree looks striking with variegated shrubs such as a Lemon Thread Cypress, or a Golden Euonymus. Their rich color will accent any deciduous plant also. One of my favorite small trees..
- Chinese Pizzaz - Loropetalum -evergreen shrub with purple and green leaves year around. Pink/red flowers will bloom in spring and summer. The Ruby Loropetalum is a dwarf and will grow 3 to 4 feet high and 3 wide. The larger versions will grow 8 to 10 feet high and 4 to 5 feet wide. The larger variety will need to be trimmed, unless you have it in an open area and want the shrub to grow naturally. Grows well in zones five through eight. Nice shrub next to the Mop Cypress.
- Carpet Rose - Evergreen in zones six through ten, and semi-evergreen in zones five and above. White and pink flowers from spring until frost. In colder zones, flowers will appear in late spring. I don't trim this rose and more blossoms appear every year. Grows two and a half to three feet high, and four feet wide. Even with the thorns, birds will perch on the carpet branches.
Love of Roses website gives you different varieties of roses to see.
- Lemon Drop Jasmine - evergreen shrub with yellow flowers from spring until fall. Branches are free flowing and great for over a series of rocks. Grows two feet high and sprawls out to three feet. You can keep this shrub trimmed. Also great shrub for covering up a tree stump.
- Lemon Thread Cypress- stunning yellow and green variegated leaves all year old. Grows six to eight feet high and three to five feet wide. Will do well in zones four through eight. Takes full sun but can handle partial shade areas. great plant specimen next to to a solid colored shrub or tree. The Lemon Thread is in the same family as Mop Cypress.
The Cypress family - colorful evergreen tree and shrubs shows you how birds can truly have a paradise in plants.
No matter how many feeders or bird baths you decide on, birds love their food and water. I have humming bird feeders also. The humming birds migrate in April to the southern part of the United Sates. May in the mid west and late May in the northeast. Nectar and regular humming bird food are great. Humming birds are attracted to the color red and any kind of red flowers will bring them to the feeders. The more feeders you have, the more of a paradise it is for the birds.If you aren't into birds, you can still use this design and create an evergreen garden with many colors and textures. Do you have your own suggestions for variations of Birds Paradise One and Two, contact me and I would love to hear about them.
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