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The Hindu : Bird houses and bird baths are fine, but to get your garden to really harbour and sustain birdlife on an ongoing basis, what you need to do is to grow the right kind of plants. Grow plants which offer both food and shelter to birdlife.
“Ideally, choose a variety of plants; plan your garden such that there are plants that provide food, shade, perches for them to sit on, and nesting places,” suggests K.V. Sudhakar, Secretary, Madras Naturalists Society. And the mantra is, go local. Exotic palm trees and the like might add grace to your landscape, but will not do much to nurture birdlife. “It would be a good idea to mimic the vertical layers of local plant communities,” adds bird watcher Shivani Mannath. That is, trees, followed by large shrubs, small shrubs, and then grasses, and create a natural setting.
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