For the birds: in a residential quarter of Charlotte, N.C., Wing Haven Garden and Bird Sanctuary provides a three-acre oasis of calm for songbirds and the people they enchant.(includes notes on bird-friendly gardening)(attracting birds) From: Country Living Gardener | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Willis, Monica Michael | COPYRIGHT 2004 © Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Robins, sparrows, wrens, and songbirds have the run of Wing Haven Garden and Bird Sanctuary in Charlotte, N.C. (Zone 7)--and that's precisely how the garden's founders, Eddie and Elizabeth Clarkson, always wanted it. Shortly after the couple's marriage in 1927, Elizabeth began to design a garden on the 2.9-acre lot that surrounds the white clapboard house that Eddie built especially for her. In the European tradition favored in the 1920s, Elizabeth built a formal framework defined ...