Here are a few tips to help you create a sustainable and beautiful garden that offers a safe haven for wildlife.
1. Know your soil type – many plants like banksias and hakeas that are an important food source for cockatoos are sensitive to soil type.
2. Visit your local plant nursery get good advice because they know your local area and environmental conditions.
3. Choose a variety of plants of plants that flower at different times of the year.
4. Improve the soil for every planting including natives with a little bit of compost, or clay, slow-release native fertiliser, wetting agent, and mulch.
5. Read the label and space plants correctly going by the height and width of the plant when mature.
6. Plant with having a 3-tier garden in mind, an upper canopy, mid-level canopy and ground covers and grasses to accommodate a bigger diversity of fauna that comes to feed and breed in your garden.
7.Birds require clean water, they drink it and also bath in it, they need to be refreshed every day to remove leaves and debris.
Birdbaths should be in the shade, because they are shallow the water heats up quickly and will grow unpleasant bacteria. Birds wont drink warm water and will use bathing to cool their bodies down. Baby birds can die of heat exposure so leave a shallow dish on the ground level under the shade.
