"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/18/2014 11:09 AM, Cheri wrote:
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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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Hahaha! That's how I got a bee sting. Made the mistake of picking
>>> pears wearing a large flowered muu muu.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
> But it doesn't get hot where Julie lives! LOL
>
> Jill

Oh God Jill, don't go there. LOL

Cheri