Wildlife Plantings for Year Around Food and Cover

Food

• Summer fruiting plants such as cherry, plum, hackberry and serviceberry species. Fall fruit and seed plants such as viburnum, dogwood, elderberry, green ash and oak.
• Winter persistent fruit or seed such as apple, viburnum and sumac or foliage such as fir or spruce.
• Spring seed such as maple, or elm.

Cover

• Plants with dense branching or persistent foliage such as evergreens, conifers, caragana, hawthorn.
• Plants that form dense colonies or thickets such as rose, sumac or dogwood.