Some native alternatives you might like to grow instead to attract birds to your garden include Alderleaf clethra (Clethra alnifolia), Virginia willow (Itea virginica), Arrowwood viburnum (Viburnum ...

It didn’t take long for that question to become front of mind when Sara Weaner Cooper and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 2022.