We are back with David Mann and we're talking all things birds in the garden.

Last time we sold you that birds are indeed highly valuable to have in your garden.

So now let's talk about how can we make our garden

help those birds, like how do we get them to want to stay maybe once they have

come our garden. So I think one thing in particular that we've done in the past year or so especially is that a lot of native plants and native garden. Now obviously birds will eat what's around them but a lot of birds that are used to being in this area in their native range are probably looking for some native plants because they're familiar with them it's kind of like

built into their instincts and so the native plant garden has been really fun

because we will oftentimes see a lot of birds in there and it's going for things

that in the normal garden space like let's say I have like a culinary sage

if that flowers I tend to remove those flowers because I don't want it to be producing seed

sending all its energy into making seed and that I don't get to keep my sage trees.

But when it comes to the Native Garden, one of the beautiful things about it is that you can just let it go.

It's like very freeing kind of gardening because the best native

garden is one that you're not constantly trying to like manicure cut down and

so I have these giant I mentioned last time these big white sage plants with

their seed heads intact and honestly it looks like a

dead stick for the most part that's like the most like number one appealing thing

that everyone wants but what's really wonderful is that the birds absolutely love eating all those white sage seeds.

And I don't have to do anything. I just have to leave it there, let the seeds form, and the birds will do the rest.

So instead of like manicuring and chopping it down,

I allow those birds to have their meal.

And in the wintertime, once there's no seed left,

the plant's really looking sad.

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