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These sites span a large rainfall gradient and vary enormously in their structure: from sparse and short arid woodlands in Western Australia to towering, 90-m tall mountain ash forests in Tasmania.

The familiar workhorses of the birds’ berry buffet, like Pyracantha and holly, mountain ash and Nandina, are all pretty enough.

In the understory, wildflowers bloom and bees buzz; blueberries, mountain ash, birch, and other shrubs and small trees thrive.

“We are in the top five national collections for maples, magnolias, oaks, mountain ash, hollies, viburnums and the family Pinaceae — pines, firs, spruces, larches, hemlocks and true cedars.”

There’s woody shrubs like green alder and willows and mountain ash, occasional Douglas fir popping up through the shrubs, and then there’s a dense layer of huckleberries.