Will sunflower seeds in bird food germinate? Yes, they have germinated on the ground under my feeder. If they were out in the sun rather than under a big spruce tree, I suppose they would grow and bloom, but as it is they stay small and spindly, and I weed them out when pulling other unwanted plants. There's nothing wrong with experimenting to see what they do in your yard; but Don has a good point about the native sunflowers. There are lots of them to try and the birds really enjoy them. Cup plant abounds in my yard, and I know I should be cutting some of them down before they flower so they don't outcompete my other plants, but the birds put on such a show when they are going to seed that I can't bring myself to do it!
--- In nativegardening@yahoogroups.com, frank lawrence <naturalimages11@...> wrote:
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> Considering the vast majority of songbirds feed primarily on insects during the summer months than yes, Native plants will attract the most diversity of birds to ones yard but there is nothing wrong with supplement feeding of birds during Fall and winter. Insects provide protein but seeds and berries provide fat which is more important for birds in winter to stay warm and to migrating birds for their long trips.
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> From: Donald Zouras II <dzouras@...>
> Subject: Re: [Native Gardening] Morning Song Wildbird feeding seeds
> To: nativegardening@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 7:26 AM
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> The best way to feed the birds is to plant native plants. My yard is filled with them and the birds love it. I do not provide any artificial feeding stations for them.
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> As far as loving sunflowers, I would suggest researching for sunflowers that are native to Texas rather than attempting to plant ones from a commercial bird feed mixture.
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> -Don
> Bartlett, IL
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> On Jun 13, 2011, at 3:03 AM, jungwu@... wrote:
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> > Greetings to all,
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> > I recently fell in love in sunflowers and I am curious about the bird feeding seeds that contain black oil sunflower seeds, and safflower seeds. Will those seeds germinate if I plant them?
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> > Thank you for your feedback.
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