Lavender for birds
Lavender for birds – content creator: Petrus A. van Tonder
A garden plant is a small shrub, with highly aromatic grey-green, silvery, or light green leaves. It has square stems, and highly aromatic small purple, mauve, pink, white or blue flowers. It is evergreen.
Nutritional value of lavender for birds:
Anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial agent.
Feeding:
Take the leaf, either fresh or dry, and either add 2-4 teaspoonfuls of the herb, chopped finely, to the daily rations that you mix together. Or make a tea which you can add to drinking water.
By: Margie Frayne
Lavender is a very popular garden plant. It is a small shrub, with highly aromatic grey-green, silvery, or light green leaves. It has square stems, and highly aromatic small purple, mauve, pink, white or blue flowers. Lavender is evergreen and can last in the garden for 3-8 years.
However, it must be trimmed back constantly. Prune lightly in early spring to encourage new growth. Then pruned again down to the hardwood in mid-summer, or after flowering. Never cut into the hardwood, as this will not re-shoot, or most likely, will cause the plant to die right back.
Constant short trimming will keep the lavender bush attractive and will prevent the plant from collapsing open in the middle. Lavender prefers to grow in full sun, in well-drained, compost-rich soil. It likes a lot of water as a young plant, but once established, it can tolerate a lack of water.
Lavender can be given alone, or in combination with a range of other wonderful stress-reducing herbs to alleviate stress-related problems. Such birds calm down quite rapidly after being given the herb and can be treated for as long, or as short as necessary. The stress-reducing active ingredients in many herbs, not only lavender, are not habit-forming and do not cause birds to become lethargic.
If you have lavender growing in your garden you can prune off a few branches and once a month place them on the floor of the cage and let the birds eat as much as they want.
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