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RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Plants in The SongBird Survival Garden

The shrubs have been chosen because they provide fruits in the form of berries and hips. The planting is a countryside-inspired palette of plants, predominantly composed of pinks, purples and whites

Crataegus persimilis 鈥楶谤耻苍颈蹿辞濒颈补鈥欌 broad-leaved cockspur thorn

Crataegus persimilis 鈥楶谤耻苍颈蹿辞濒颈补鈥
Crataegus persimilis 鈥楶谤耻苍颈蹿辞濒颈补鈥

A valuable tree for smaller gardens, it has white flowers in spring which are great for encouraging pollinators. In the autumn the tree produces red berries that provide food for birds during the winter, particularly thrushes. The canopy branches have thorns which also provide safety and shelter for birds.

Ribes nigrum 鈥楤en Connan鈥 鈥 blackcurrant

A compact blackcurrant with pollinator-friendly spring flowers and summer fruits that the birds, especially blackbirds, will eat.

A small to medium sized shrub that shows good resistance to mildew and is very frost tolerant, so excellent for growing in colder areas. It produces exceptionally large fruit that have a superb rich flavour from mid-July, and an established plant produce up to 3.6kg (8lb). A very popular variety.

Ribes nigrum 鈥楤en Connan鈥
Ribes nigrum 鈥楤en Connan鈥

鈥淭he theme of the planting is to provide a habitat that is ideal for birds and other wildlife with plentiful sources of food and shelter. Multi-stem trees provide spring flowers for insects, berries for birds in the autumn and winter, with places for birds to perch, nest and shelter.鈥

Nicola Oakey, garden designer

Taxus baccata 鈥 English yew

Taxus baccata
Taxus baccata

Yew hedges provide great dense shelter for birds, especially because they are evergreen.

Needle-like, dark green leaves on horizontal branches and fleshy, cup-shaped, bright-red autumn fruits on female plants. The dark green foliage of this slow-growing, evergreen conifer provides an excellent background for shrub and herbaceous borders. Broadly conical in shape, it鈥檚 tolerant to dry shade, chalky and acid soils, and urban pollution. Yew also makes a fabulous, formal hedge.

Centaurea montana 鈥楶urple Heart鈥 鈥 knapweed

A long-flowering perennial that is one of the RHS鈥 鈥楶erfect for Pollinators鈥 plants. The seeds of the plant are loved by goldfinches, so it鈥檚 best to wait until the birds have eaten the seed before deadheading.

Purple-eyed flowerheads, each with a ruff of long white florets, form throughout the summer above the clumps of grey-green foliage, creating easy-going groundcover that will thrive in a sunny spot. It鈥檚 ideal for a more naturalised setting 鈥 and the bees and butterflies love it too.

Centaurea montana 鈥楶urple Heart鈥
Centaurea montana 鈥楶urple Heart鈥

Rubus arcticus 鈥 Arctic bramble

Rubus arcticus
Rubus arcticus

A low growing, spreading thornless bramble. In summer it produces small pink flowers then are then followed by dark red edible fruits. The ground cover nature of this plant makes it ideal for foraging birds.

A thornless, deciduous, spreading perennial or subshrub to 30cm tall and up to 1m wide with three-lobed, serrated-edged leaves. Pink to rose-purple flowers up to 2.5cm across are borne in summer in groups of 1-3 and are followed by deep red or dark purple edible, roundish fruits up to 1cm in diameter.

Plant lists are provided by the designer of the Garden as a guide to the plants they hope to use in the Garden based on the time of year, the location and the Client Brief. The plants that feature at the Show depends on a variety of factors such as weather during the growing season and availability. While the designers try to update lists where possible, the accuracy of the list cannot be guaranteed.

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