{"id":5241,"date":"2025-10-21T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whiteflowerfarm.com\/blog\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:12:28","slug":"leave-these-plants-standing-your-backyard-birds-will-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteflowerfarm.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/leave-these-plants-standing-your-backyard-birds-will-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave These Plants Standing (Your Backyard Birds Will Thank You)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thinking of cutting back your garden this fall? Hold off on these beauties! Many varieties produce nutritious seed heads and their structure provides shelter for birds all winter long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plants to leave standing:
– Agastache
– Andropogon
– Carex (Sedges)
– Coreopsis
– Echinacea 
– Eragrostis (Purple Love Grass)
– Eutrochium (Joe Pye Weed)
– Helenium 
– Heliopsis 
– Liatris 
– Muhlenbergia
– Rudbeckia 
– Sporobolus (Prairie Dropseed)
– Symphyotrichum (Asters) <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Agastache\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Andropogon\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Carex\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Coreopsis\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Echinacea\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Eragrostis\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Eutrochium\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Helenium\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Heliopsis\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Liatris\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Muhlenbergia\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Rudbeckia\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Sporobolus\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Symphyotrichum\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>