On 7/17/2014 5:00 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-07-17 4:54 PM, Susan wrote:
>>
>> One, just ONCE, I'd kill to see ONE!
>>
>> On vacation, the moment I left the porch of a b and b we were in, Tom
>> saw one. I got that close.
>>
>> I'm thinking of making a hummingbird/butterfly garden inside a barrier
>> we installed after removing an invasive bamboo grove.
>> There's also trumpet vine climbing around the back wall there, so
>> maybe...
>>
>>
> If you want to see hummingbirds you should plant lots of the sorts of
> flowers that attract then, especially flowers with trumpet shapes. We
> often see them around the Rose of Sharon, day lilies and sun flowers.
>
Hummingbirds have very far ranges of migration, too. Of course it
depends on which coast in the Americas you're on as to which types of
hummingbirds you can attract. The right (bright) trumpet type flowers
and bright red feeders definitely call to them. The sugar water/nectar
does *not* need to be dyed red (contrary to popular belief). But they
are attracted to bright feeders just as they are to bright flowers.

Jill