"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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

I've actually had them come after a blouse with red flowers on it before
they realized it wasn't food.

Cheri