Oh, joy of joys, I've just planted a serviceberry shrub in my backyard, thinking it'd be this low-maintenance beauty with edible berries and pretty spring blooms. But now it's fall, the leaves are turning that gorgeous red-orange (score one for aesthetics), and suddenly my yard sounds like a feathered frat party. Birds everywhere, stripping the berries faster than I can say "pie filling." Is this normal, or did I accidentally summon the avian apocalypse? Anyone have tips on netting without looking like I run a maximum-security fruit prison, or better yet, companion plants that tell the birds to buzz off? Help me before I start charging admission to this berry buffet.
