Leave These Plants Standing (Your Backyard Birds Will Thank You)

Thinking of cutting back your garden this fall? Hold off on these beauties! Many varieties produce nutritious seed heads and their structure provides shelter for birds all winter long. By leaving these North American native plants standing, you’re giving birds a winter buffet and adding beauty to your snowy garden.
Plants to leave standing:
Agastache

Andropogon

Carex (Sedges)

Coreopsis

Echinacea

Eragrostis (Purple Love Grass)

Eutrochium (Joe Pye Weed)

Helenium

Heliopsis

Liatris

Muhlenbergia

Rudbeckia

Sporobolus (Prairie Dropseed)

Symphyotrichum (Asters)
