Educate Yourself About the Chicken Grape and Its Fruit-eating Birds
Chicken Grape
Chicken Grape (V. riparia) can be planted near riverbanks or next to your pond in your lovely water garden. This grape vine can survive very cold climates, way up north, and its small blue-black fruits are readily eaten by birds like the Dark-eyed Juncos, the Gray Catbirds, and the Brown Thrashers.
The Chicken Grape can climb up to “between” 30-50ft (9-15m), and have a spread, depending how much support it gets. Another grape vine is the Riverbank Grape (V. riparia), and does well in extreme cold as well.
