While native gardening is something that most people are encouraging now, it’s not necessary to have all native gardens to bring in some kind of wildlife and make it want to stay around your property.

If you want to encourage birds and wildlife to use your area, or your gardens however, you do need to adhere to a few rules. Your garden will be a place where the birds and butterflies come to feed and rest if you make it a place that doesn’t harbor toxins to them.

Even those flowers and plants that are not part of the native landscape will be well received and used as a food source. That is, unless they are covered with unnatural fertilizers and insect killers.

Certain types of fertilizers and bug sprays are quite toxic to even birds, not to mention butterflies. If the leaves of your plants are laden with things that will harm or kill the wildlife you enjoy viewing, chances are that they aren’t going to stay around long.

If certain insects are troublesome in your garden you will want to find some way to repel them but the very toxic varieties of insect spray or repellent also can wreak havoc on the insects and the birds that you want in your garden.

Make it a point to find natural methods of repelling the insects such as various flower or plant oils, rather than using repellents that contain very toxic ingredients that last a long period of time.

A few ideas for repelling insects might be to plant marigolds, lavender or other plants that tend to keep insects at bay naturally. There are some wonderful naturally insect annoying products too that are made specifically for the natural gardener.

In addition you can make your own methods to repel or prevent damage from insects by mixing water and ground parts of the insect. In a great many cases this will keep away bugs such as potato bugs.

Explore more natural methods of keeping away the insects that are harmful to your garden. You don’t want to add something to the property that will damage the very animals you are working to bring home to your garden.