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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "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:
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>>>>> One, just ONCE, I'd kill to see ONE!
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>>>>> On vacation, the moment I left the porch of a b and b we were in, Tom
>>>>> saw one. I got that close.
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>>>>> 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...
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Jill

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

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> Hahaha! That's how I got a bee sting. Made the mistake of picking pears
> wearing a large flowered muu muu.
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> I once gave my bro a hummingbird feeder as a gift because I thought it was
> pretty. I had no idea how high maintenance they are. That stopped me
> from getting one for myself. The instructions actually said not to make
> the nectar yourself and only to purchase it or you could sicken the birds.
> And it had to be cleaned and disinfected so frequently that I wouldn't
> bother. I'd be afraid that I'd forget or for some reason be unable to
> clean it and kill the birds./


I've always made my own. Has to be changed often in the heat, but other than
that, easy.

Cheri
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