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Gardening for humming birds
Words & Photos by JoAnne Green
December 17, 2009
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Like
many gardeners, I get very excited to see humming
birds hovering in my garden. It is so enjoyable to
watch these lovely tiny birds zipping around.
Humming
birds particularly love red flowers.
To entice them
to return and stay longer in my garden, I plant more red
flowers of various shades each year. As my climbing red roses
begin to bloom early in February, I start to see
these amazing birds zipping around and hovering from one rose bud to
another. They also love to feast on nectar of
flowers on the trumpet vines and cypress
vines, cardinal flower, and bleeding heart all summer
long. Several bushes of pineapple sage in my garden
are also humming bird magnets from late October
through the end of December. Pineapple sage, shown
above, grows to about 5 feet tall by late summer and
has an abundance of elegantly long red flowers
continuously blooming that provide humming birds
delectable nectar. In all, my garden is an
all-you-can eat buffet for humming birds.
I don't
use nectar feeders to attract humming birds at all.
I enjoy planting a lot of
flowering plants that humming birds are crazy about
as the beauty and rewards are much greater.
I often see humming birds hovering in my garden
from as early as
6:30 in the morning until sunset.
So as long
as you provide an abundance of red flowers from early
spring through late fall, those lovely, amazing
humming birds will continue to come to your garden and hover over
your irresistible flowers. In Clovis and around the Central
Valley, it's easy for gardeners to have humming
birds zip around their gardens from February through
the end of November.
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