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PLANTING FOR BIRDS - By Tracy Payne

(Thanks to Debbie Jeppson and Ruth Moorhead for their help)

Most of these plants are attractive to birds and grow well in Pocatello without requiring a lot of water.

We recommend planting native plants as much as possible.

 *=highly recommended (because they are known to attract birds and known to grow well here)

 Plants native in this general region:

 Trees:

Mountain Ash *

Chokecherries *

Hackberries

Hawthorns  *

Rocky Mountain and Utah Junipers

 Forbs:

Asters

Buckwheats (some)

Clover

Evening Primrose  (some)

Flax

Lupines (some)

Strawberries (some)

Sunflowers* (Annual Sunflower, not the large-headed kind)

 Shrubs and Vines:

Atriplex canescens (four-wing saltbush)

Bearberry (at higher elevations, in shade)

Bitterbrush*

Buffalo Berry (at higher elevations, in shade)

Elderberries*

Hawthorn*

Mahonia (Oregon grape)

Ribes aureum (Golden Currant) *

Rhus trilobata

Sagebrush

Serviceberry*

Sumacs (some)

Syringa (Mock orange) (the native one grows only among rocks, on lava flows etc.)

Wood’s Rose (at higher elevations, in shade)

 For Hummingbirds:

Agastache urticifolia (at higher elevations, in shade)

Aquilegias (Columbines)* (at higher elevations,

in shade)

Asclepias speciosa* – Showy Milkweed

Bluebells

Castilleja (Indian paintbrush)* (some)

Clematis

Delphiniums (some)

Fireweed*

Gentian

Geranium (some)

Harebells

Silene (Catchfly)

Larkspur (some)

Nepeta

Penstemons (some)*

Nicotiana*

  Non-native Plants that might do well in Pocatello gardens (with plenty of water)

 Trees:

Cherries, including Nanking (starlings, robins gobble them!)

Crab Apples*

Lindens

Locusts

Plums

Pines of various kinds (at higher elevations than town)

 Shrubs and Vines:

Barberry

Beauty Berry

Ceanothus

Cotoneaster

Euonymous

Lonicera (Honeysuckle vine)

Siberian Pea

Sumacs (some)

Syringa (Mock orange)

Virginia Creeper* (starlings love it)

 Forbs and grasses:

Asters

Black-eyed Susan

Canary Grass

Cardinal Flower

Centauras (Bachelor Buttons)

Coralberry

Coreopsis

Cosmos

Dahlia

Dianthus

Gaillardia (Blanket Flowers)

Hibiscus moschutes

Hollyhock  (might attract hummingbirds)

Liatris (Prairie Blazing Star)

Lupines

Marigolds

Papaver Orientalis (Oriental Poppies)

Petunia

Weigela

Zinnias

  For those hard to find plants, including good selections of native plants:

http://www.highcountrygardens.com (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

http://seedstrust.com (Hailey, Idaho)