This attractive border does double duty, because it serves both as a beautiful landscape planting as well as an effective wildlife sanctuary. Offering natural food sources, shelter, and water, the planting brings birds to your property throughout the year, and its informal but tidy design looks right at home in any suburban setting. Although they serve a practical purpose as well, the birdhouses, bird feeders, and birdbath add interesting architectural elements to the design. The shrubs and trees used in the border--and even many of the perennials and ornamental grasses--produce berries and seeds that attract birds. They are arranged informally and should be left unpruned to form a dense shelter for nesting sites. Because most berried plants produce best when cross-pollinated by another similar plant, the designer masses specimens together and repeats plants. You can site this border along the property lines in either your front- or backyard, or round off its corners and use it as an island planting. Then sit back and enjoy the birds and birdsongs that fill your garden. Filled with fruiting shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, and perennials that provide food for birds, this border is as beautiful as it is bird-friendly.