Plants and the coop

[havi]

I live in Texas so it gets pretty hot here. I want to plant some kind of flowers or plants around the coop. For shade and to make it pretty. I was thinking about honeysuckle. Im looking at chicken coops on flickr and see a lot of them with Clematis growing on them. So I assume those are okay? Im wanting to plant these on the ourside of the run so they dont get their roots scratched all the time. Any help or thoughts?

 

[chickflick]

I think it would be great if you can find something that the chickens wouldn't kill. I would like to do something also, cuz the run gets the setting sun and it gets hot, even here in Michigan. I'll have to try clematis.

 

[Dawn419]

Here's a 4 page thread with some plant ideas for the chickens...

Planting vines for shade

Hope this helps!

Dawn

 

[Break an Egg]

Havi, I live in San Antonio and I was thinking about the same thing. Recently, I saw some pumpkin vines that were a dark green color and looked great, and I was thinking about using them.