Resources

  • Brown, flowery seed grass with light reflecting off the leaves and seeds.
    Seed Saving

    Learn how to save seeds from your native plants to grow more baby plants for the spring.

  • A garden with pink milkweed and red oswego tea that a butterfly is feeding on with an female green and brown Ruby-throated Hummingbird awaiting its turn.
    It’s All In the Chemistry

    How Your Native Plant Garden Blossoms By Calyssa Orellana Eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) grown along a driveway. Garden for Birds Participant, 2025 in Pennsylvania. Picture the luscious magenta blooms of mountain’s pride (Penstemon newberryi) sprinkled throughout Yosemite National Park…

  • bright flowers in front of a house
    What About This Spot? Advice on Common Garden Issues

    We all have those tricky spots in our outdoor spaces: the struggle to keep them tidy or looking good, or even to get plants to grow at all. At the outset of a project, you may wonder where to start…

  • Calendar with red tack markers.
    Calendar of Activities & Events

    As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was 40 years ago, but the next best time is now. The same goes for gardening for birds. So, let’s get going! Add the Garden for Birds Calendar to…

  • Orange and black Baltimore Oriole harvesting moth caterpillars from a nest in the trees.
    Frequently Asked Questions

    There’s an endless amount of questions we stumble upon as we create native habitat. See some of the common questions and answers.

  • black, green, and yellow goldfinch on a flowering yellow willow stem
    Online Gardening Courses

    Explore online courses to learn more about how to create gardens that attract and support birds.

  • grid of a tool to make a planting palette
    Planting Palette

    Use a planting palette to take an inventory of your gardens. This tool is useful for those who have a lot of habitat, but want to add more. Or, those who notice gaps in their resource availability for birds and pollinators.