Ideally, we should try to live in harmony with our native birds and animals and enjoy watching them foraging for food and ineracting with each other.

Here are a few ways you can provide natural foods, water and shelter for native animals in your garden.

** Plant native flowering trees and shrubs to provide wildlife with a variety of natural food and shelter.

** Place wooden nesting boxes in trees to encourage wildlife to sleep and breed in your garden.

** Place birdbaths and ponds in your garden, adding beauty, supplying water and attracting insects.

** Leave clumps of undisturbed vegetation in secluded areas in the garden away from noise and domestic pets.

** Leave an outside light on at night for a few hours to attract an abundance of insects for nocturnal wildlife e.g. bats

** Let the wildlife take care of the insects around your garden instead of using chemical deterrents.

** If you have a lizard living in your garden it will eat the snails and other insects in your garden.

Here is a list of some common plants that will attract wildlife to your garden.

Bottle Brush
Hakea
Gum Trees
Grevillea
Honeysuckle
Roses
Plumbago
Melaleuca
Wattle
Fruit Trees

An excellent web site on this topic is Flora For Fauna:

http://www.floraforfauna.com.au

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