Landscape plan 10 years ago for $500.
The basis of the plan was native trees for birds. We now wake to the sound of the birds and in the evening they think its a playground. We've been able to plant them on other peoples property nearby and have seen native birds we've never seen before in our garden.
Now that is an amazing purchase! May I ask whereabouts do you live? I would love to add some more native shrubs to my yard for birds.
Thanks for the feedback
Christchurch New Zealand. I really thought it was being extravagant at the time and just approached a nursery. So it was full price. I was wondering how mustachians would view it.
What I didn't know at the time is that the land right next to us would be red zoned. 10,000 homes going. So the birds (and cats and rats unfortunately) are loving the space. Hence the expanding number of native birds are now happy to pop across to the natives to give us surprises.
Our birds are not large nor spectacular, but we've had the bellbird (the bird of the forest) grey warbler, fantail, kereru (wood pigeon) and the New Zealand Falcon has been flying above us. We also get flocks of silvereye
The advice was to plant seed producing plants as well as flowering. And planted some of them in a group. If you can leave some scrub under the tree for the birds. I used to get rid of broken branches, but I can't reach them anymore and the birds are nesting up there so I'm hoping the chicks fly away before the branch collapses. Iv'e even had a native bird try to land on my shoulder. If you make noises like a bird they come to see what you're up to, especially the fantails who swirl around you. I often go out there and slowly become aware of more and more that i didn't notice at first.
Because they're nesting at the moment they're trying to take big branches and break string off my hessian pot. They seem to know we won't hurt them and if you're gardening they may follow you. It really is just a 700sqm section including the house. we've also got 28 fruit trees at last count which we share with the birds, apples, peaches, nectarines, quinces, plums and cherries. Apples are by far the most successful for the birds if you leave some on the tree, months of winter feed. A lot of the trees are dwarf or pixies. Even have a dwarf walnut.
Some people say the birds left after the earthquakes, they never left us, I checked each time.