flowers spring berrys in late summer any ideas ?? bird oasis

Hi everyone
I am looking for some type of shrub easy to grow(hard to kill) that has a mass of flowers in spring /latesummer and fruit attractive to birds in late autumn ???. and it needs to be fairly dense to attract small birds .

any ideas would be welcome :cnfs:

I live on the south coast (POOLE Dorset)
and am trying to develop a easily maintained fairly natural (mainly native plants) garden that is a haven for small birds, bees, butterfly's etc

Thanks

 

Webjunky, just one word. Cotoneaster.:thumb: And welcome to the site, by the way.

 

Cheers david

looks like just the sort of thing I am after , any sort of variety ?? there seems to be a lot to choose from .

Brian

 

Hi Webjunky and welcome to GC..
You could also consider Pyracanther.....lots of berries.....red or orange.

 

Hiya and welcome webjunky what part of Poole u in?

 

~My viburnam looks good at the moment, it was a grafted thing which did not do too well so I chucked it in the bottom of the hedge. the suckers made such a great Autumn display that I moved it back into the garden. I just have some shrubs that refuse to be "Degardened".

 

Sorbus will make a good small tree. Easily pruned to keep at 10ish feet and gives plentiful berries.

 

Pyracantha, Cotoneaster, Viburnum and Symphoricarpos would be the ones to check out primarily. They come in a range of berry sizes and colours.

 

HI
I am from parkstone have staffs as well , took me about ten years to work out how to stop them trashing the garden but cracked it in the end :-)

 

Cheers for all the good suggestions I am looking around now but cant find a decent nursery with decent sized plants .
I know they grow fairly quick but I am the impatient sort of gardener :-)