Re:re Weed profiles - for the birds

Diane wrote:

"We were always urged to plant berrying plants for the birds.  Those
are the plants that come up under trees where birds sit, digest their
berries and excrete the seeds.  Holly, pyracantha, cotoneaster,
daphne, ivy - did I miss many?"

In the gardens I work in Olea europea(Olive),Pittosporum undulatum,
Prunus laurocerasus (English Laurel),Ligustrum japonicum and L.
lucidum(Privets)are big weed problems in addition to your list.

"Now I'm planting for hummingbirds.  At least they like nectar,not
berries, and fewer of their flowers produce seedlings.  Fuchsias
produce berries edible by humans, and presumably by birds, but I
haven't seen any volunteer seedlings."

I have had *many* seedlings of Fuchsia boliviana come up here
in moist parts of the garden and am now dead-heading regularly to
limit the weediness problem.Since the seedlings were showing up
far from the mother plant as well as right around it,I assume that birds 
are a vector.

Deborah Lindsay
Oakland, Ca.
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