{"id":401,"date":"2009-12-27T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-12-27T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T20:04:01","slug":"winter-feast-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/27\/winter-feast-for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Feast for the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"360\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Dark_eyed_junco.jpg?resize=257%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>I love the holiday season. Every year I <strong>decorate a plant or tree outside my window<\/strong> where I can see it from inside the house. I use edible ornaments that attract small songbirds.&nbsp; Both fruit-eating and seed-eating birds will appreciate the dietary boost during the lean winter months.&nbsp; For the <strong>fruit-eaters<\/strong> string garlands of dried apples, bananas, hawthorn berries, cranberries and grapes onto sewing thread.&nbsp; You can also thread them onto wire loops with raw whole peanuts in the shell.&nbsp; Wire orange slices to the branches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seed-eaters<\/strong> relish stalks of ornamental wheat tied to the branches, along with ears of ornamental corn.&nbsp; The favorite of all the &quot;ornaments&quot; is peanut butter-coated pinecones encrusted with wild birdseed mix and hung with florist wire.&nbsp; Millet sprays tied to the branches are a hit, too.&nbsp; Look around your garden for berries that you can use to decorate your tree as a present for the birds.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re in the decorating mood,&nbsp; take advantage of this opportunity to .&nbsp; Cuttings from fir, redwoods,&nbsp; pine, holly, mahonia, strawberry tree, toyon and cotoneaster parneyi make fine additions to your wreaths and swags.&nbsp; But don&#8217;t whack off snippets indiscriminately.&nbsp; To reveal the plant&#8217;s naturally handsome form, prune from the bottom up and from the inside out.&nbsp; Avoid ugly stubs by cutting back to the next largest branch or to the trunk.&nbsp; If the plant has grown too dense, selectively remove whole branches to allow more air and sunlight to reach into the plant. <\/p>\n<p>Be sure to strip the foliage from the portions of the stems that will be under water if you are using the cuttings in a bouquet.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the holiday season. Every year I decorate a plant or tree outside my window where I can see it from inside the house. I use edible ornaments that attract small songbirds.&nbsp; Both fruit-eating and seed-eating birds will appreciate the dietary boost during the lean winter months.&nbsp; For the fruit-eaters string garlands of dried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/27\/winter-feast-for-the-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Feast for the Birds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-ideas","tag-feeding-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}