Bohemian waxwing eating mountain ash berries

Grouse & Songbird Fruit Add-On (9 Plants) | Spring 2027

Name: Grouse & Songbird Fruit Add-On (9 Plants) | Spring 2027
Brand: Montana Fruit Trees
Price: 229.99 USD
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An add-on to any wildlife planting: fruit for grouse and songbirds. Mountain ash berries hang on all winter, and aronia and American elderberry fill in the shrub layer.

What you get	9 plants: Mountain Ash (3, 3-5 ft.), Aronia (3), American Elderberry (3, 2-3 ft.). Bare root, shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring 2027, roots wrapped in moist sawdust. Guaranteed to bud out.
Hardy to	Zone 3 (winters to about -40°F). Check your spot with our cold hardiness calculator.
Why these	Mountain ash berries stay on the tree all winter for ruffed, sharp-tailed and blue grouse, robins and waxwings (US Forest Service). Aronia and elderberry are both on South Dakota's Woody Habitat list for wildlife shelterbelts.
Pollination	Aronia is self-fertile, and the elderberries set better fruit planted together.

Protect Them

Deer, elk and moose browse young plants hard, and bucks rub trunks in fall. Cage each tree until it's out of reach: a welded-wire cage about 5 ft. tall and 3 ft. across works for deer. Where elk come through, MSU recommends an 8 ft. fence with a top rail. Trunk tubes alone won't stop rubs. Water with drip the first couple of summers.

Bear country: fruit draws black bears and grizzlies. Plant well away from houses and outbuildings, and use electric fence where bears are around.

Is Planting This Baiting?

Growing plants is habitat work. Rules on fruit or nuts you pick, move or pile up vary by state, so check your state's hunting regs before you hunt over it.

For the full how-to (why these plants work, spacing, protection and timing), read our ruffed grouse planting guide.

See our other wildlife bundles on the wildlife orchard bundles page.

Photos: Bohemian waxwing by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain); mountain ash berries by Gilles Ayotte (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.