Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Attracting Birds

Name: Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Attracting Birds
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ISBN: 9781584652151

ISBN-10: 1584652152

ISBN-13: 9781584652151

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Richard M. DeGraaf

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Revised and updated, this new edition of a much sought-after classic remains the best source for information about the trees, shrubs, and vines that provide bird habitats and feeding sources in the United States and Canada from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. More than 160 species of trees, shrubs, and vines that provide food, cover, and nesting for common North American birds are highlighted, with instructions on designing a landscape habitat that attracts desired bird species. For each plant species the author provides a description, flowering and fruiting periods, preferred habitat conditions, growing ranges, and hardiness zones. Detailed instructions cover…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 8/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Trees


Balsam Fir


Boxelder


Norway Maple


Red Maple


Silver Maple


Sugar Maple


Downy Serviceberry


Shadblow Serviceberry


Smooth Serviceberry


Sweet Birch


Yellow Birch


Paper Birch


Gray Birch


American Hornbeam


Pignut Hickory


Shagbark Hickory


Mockernut Hickory


Common Hackberry


Flowering Dogwood


Common Persimmon


American Beech


White Ash


Black Ash


Green Ash


American Holly


Butternut


Eastern Black Walnut


Eastern Red Cedar


American Larch


American Sweetgum


Yellow-Poplar


Common Apple


Crabapples


White Mulberry


Red Mulberry


Black Tupelo


American Hop-Hornbeam


White Spruce


Colorado Spruce


Red Spruce


Red Pine


Pitch Pine


Eastern White Pine


Scots Pine


Eastern Cottonwood


Bigtooth Aspen


Quaking Aspen


Pin Cherry


Black Cherry


Common Chokecherry


White Oak


Scarlet Oak


Pin Oak


Northern Red Oak


Black Oak


Black Willow


Common Sassafras


American Mountain-Ash


Northern White Cedar


Eastern Hemlock


American Elm


Shrubs


Speckled Alder


Smooth Alder


Bartram Serviceberry


Devil's Walkingstick


Common Bearberry


Red Chokeberry


Black Chokeberry


Japanese Barberry


Common Barberry


Eastern Chinkapin


Buttonbush


Sweetfern


Alternate-Leaf Dogwood


Silky Dogwood


Bunchberry


Gray Dogwood


Red Osier


American Hazel-Nut


Beaked Hazel-Nut


Hawthorns


Russian Olive


Autumn Olive


Huckleberries


Black Huckleberry


Box Huckleberry


Dwarf Huckleberry


Dangleberry


Witch-Hazel


Shrubby St. Johnswort


Inkberry


Smooth Winterberry


Common Winterberry


Common Juniper


Common Spicebush


Honeysuckles


Northern Bayberry


Scarlet Firethorn


Alderleaf Buckthorn


Common Buckthorn


Glossy Buckthorn


Flameleaf Sumac


Smooth Sumac


Staghorn Sumac


American Black Currant


Pasture Gooseberry


Roses


Brambles


Pussy Willow


Small Willow


Purpleosier Willow


American Elder


Scarlet Elder


Narrowleaf Meadowsweet


Broadleaf Meadowsweet


Hardhack


Common Snowberry


Coralberry


Canada Yew


Lowbush Blueberry


Highbush Blueberry


Mapleleaf Viburnum


Hobblebush


Wild Raisin


Southern Arrowwood


Northern Arrowwood


Nannyberry


American Cranberrybush


Vines


Heartleaf Ampelopsis


Common Trumpetcreeper


American Bittersweet


Common Moonseed


Virginia Creeper


Cat Greenbrier


Common Greenbrier


Poison Ivy


Grapes


Appendixes



Plant Hardiness Zone Map



Flowering and Fruiting Periods


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Low Trees


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Intermediate Trees


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Tall Trees


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Low Shrubs


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Intermediate Shrubs


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Tall Shrubs


Flowering and Fruiting Periods of Vines



Precautions on Invasive Plants


Potentially Invasive Plants



Plants for Specific Growing Conditions


Plants That Will Grow in Dry Sandy Soils


Plants for Wet Soils Poorly Drained Areas


Street Trees and Shrubs That Are Valuable for Birds


Plants That Withstand City Conditions


Some Salt-Tolerant Plants


References


Glossary


Index