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Beautiful Flowers that Attract Songbirds

Attracting the Music of Birds to Your Yard

By Crystal Ray, published Apr 27, 2006
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Did you know you can plant flowers in your yard that will attract beautiful songbirds? You can listen to the sweet music of songbirds by planting the flowers songbirds love. Songbirds will visit your yard from late spring until late autumn. Depending on your location, you can attract songbirds such as the Pine Siskin, Red-eyed Vireo, Tree Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Tufted Titmouse, Chickadee, Goldfinch, Purple Finch, and the Black-capped Chickadee. Besides attracting beautiful songbirds to your yard, you will add a rainbow of colors to your landscape. The following flowers are easy to care for perennials that will come back again and again for years to come.

Belladonna Delphinium

There aren’t many truly blue flowers, but Belladonna Delphinium is a very pretty shade of blue. Songbirds love Belladonna Delphinium, and their double florets bloom from late in the spring until early in the summer. These flowers are unique because they bloom a second time in the season.

Besides attracting beautiful songbirds, Belladonna Delphinium is beautiful as cut flowers, and they look wonderful in a vase. These songbird attracting flowers reach a maximum height of approximately two feet, and they require full sun. Plant Belladonna Delphinium in zones three through nine for best results.

Little Miss Muffet Daisy

Daisies are classic flowers that are beautiful in any garden or yard, and songbirds love them just as much as gardeners. Attract beautiful songbirds to your yard by planting Little Miss Muffet Daisies. These daisies have crisp white petals that fade to creamy yellow toward the flower center, and the center is bold yellow with a hint of underlying green.

These songbird attracting perennials are easy to care for and reach a maximum height of about 18 inches. Little Miss Muffet Daisies bloom from late in the spring until the early weeks of summer. They are also great as potted plants on a deck, patio, or balcony. Purple finches especially love these classic showy flowers.

Summer Sun Heliopsis

Beautiful Flowers that Attract Songbirds
Beautiful Flowers that Attract Songbirds

Planting the right flowers in your yard can bring beautiful songbirds such as this Goldfinch.

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Takeaways
  • There are beautiful flowers that naturally attract songbirds.
  • Perennial flowers that attract songbirds will come back year after year.
  • Many flowers that attract songbirds also make great cut or dried flowers.
Did You Know?
The Red-eyed Vireo is a songbird that holds the record for singing 22,197 songs in the span of 10 hours! That's a lot of songs, and a lot of counting!
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