FIVE PLANTS LOVED BY BIRDS

1 HEDERA COLCHICA ‘ SULPHUR HEART’ This ivy’s foil of variegated leaves provides cover, while thrushes love its black berries. 2 MALUS X ZUMI ‘ GOLDEN HORNET’ A crab apple with yellow fruit, above, that will attract robins, starlings and other birds in autumn and winter. 3 PYRACANTHA ‘ SAPHYR ROUGE’ Birds nest in the branches of this wall shrub and gorge on its red berries, below, from autumn into winter. 4 STIPA TENUISSIMA Foraging birds will look for insects within clumps of this deciduous grass and gather its wispy, narrow leaves for making nests in the spring. 5 SYMPHYOTRICHUM ‘ LITTLE CARLOW’ The mid-autumn, violet-blue daisies of this aster are followed by seed heads that entice birds until spring.