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• | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: birds, Intermediate Sized Trees, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites
  

• Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: birds, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  It takes more than a feeder and a birdbath to make your yard truly bird friendly. Birds need a complete habitat that provides food, shelter, nesting areas, and singing posts from which to defend their territories. Factors to Consider When...

• Northern BurgundyTM Southern Arrowwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Chicagoland Grows, birds, Large Deciduous Shrubs
   Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum 'Morton'Common Name: Northern BurgundyTM Southern Arrowwood Height: 10-12' Spread: 6-8' Habit/Form: Upright to vase-shaped Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-8Cultural Requirements: Sun or shade; adaptable to...

• River Birch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, birds, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Trees, Native Trees, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Betula nigraCommon Name: River Birch* Reviewed 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Winter form     Leaf Bark Height: 40-70' Spread: 40-60' Habit/Form: Pyramidal to...

• Wine and Roses® Weigela

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Butterflies, birds, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Weigela florida 'Alexandra' Common Name: Wine and Roses® Weigela Click on an image to enlarge form flower Height: 4-6' Spread: 4-6' Habit/Form: Compact, rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4-8Cultural...

• Hackberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees, Butterflies, birds
  Botanical Name: Celtis occidentalis Common Name: Hackberry Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Winter form Leaf bark form Height: 40-60' Spread: 40-60' Habit/Form: Pyramidal in youth changing...

• Chicago Lustre Southern Arrowwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Chicagoland Grows, birds, Viburnum
  Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum 'Synnestvedt'Common Name: Chicago LustreTM Southern Arrowwood Height: 8-10' Spread: 8-10' Habit/Form: Uniform upright rounded shrub Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-8Fruit: Red to purpleFall Color: BurgundyCultural...

• Possum-haw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Midwest, Large Deciduous Shrubs, birds, Four Season Landscape
  Bonatical name:  Ilex deciduaCommon Name:  Possum-haw Click on image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fruit Height: 10-15'+ Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded Rate: Medium (6-12 inches per year) Zone:...

• American Cranberry-bush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, birds, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Viburnum trilobu*Common Name: American Cranberry-Bush   Form Leaves & flowers Fruit Click on an image to enlarge. Height:  8-12'Spread:  8-12'Fuit:  Red (Exceptional)Fall Color: ...