Attracting Songbirds and Other Wildlife Using Native Plants in Your Garden

Attracting Songbirds and Other Wildlife Using Native Plants in Your Garden will be presented by the Georgetown Public Library on Saturday Feb 4 at 11am.    This program will explore ways to help to repopulate the Songbird Population.  Songbird population has been declining for years because they are losing habitat.  Home gardeners can help by adding native plants to their yards and gardens.  Unlike the nonnative plants many of us have in our gardens, native plants provide the food for insects that then become the food for baby songbirds.  Native plants are attractive and interesting additions to the garden.

This program will be presented by Brent Marsh Master Gardener Volunteer of the Delaware Cooperative Extension.  Brent likes wild animals. But instead of living amongst elephants, lions and wildebeests, he lives in Georgetown, where the insects and birds in his garden are just as exciting, though a lot smaller.  "You just have to look," he says.  He became interested in native plants when he noticed that the wilder his garden became, the more songbirds it attracted.  A retired University of Delaware -educated engineer, Brent recently completed the Master Gardener classes.