Not a great picture but we have our first hummingbird picture of 2011 and definitely happy to see hummingbirds visiting our garden. Still didn’t get that new camera we talked about in an earlier post but hopefully will soon. We put the feeder up about April 17th and it took about a week and a half for us to see our first hummingbird. First week we had a male visit on an off and by the second week we’ve seen a couple of females almost every day.
We also put a new hummingbird plant in our garden this year, bee balm ( Monarda – Jacob Cline). We’ll make a post about it once we can get some photos. My husband says he sees hummingbirds feeding at this plant in other gardens all the time.
This picture is of our Porterweed and Cardinal Climber seedlings. We made a post about them back in January and this is our first update. The larger fern like plant is the Cardinal Climber and it took about a week to a week and a half for the seeds to germinate. Those smaller are the Porterweed and it took them almost five weeks or better to start growing. Maybe it shouldn’t have taken that long for the Porterweed seeds. It’s possible we didn’t do it quite the right way. We plan to keep updating the progress on these two plants throughout the season and maybe we can get lucky enough to get a picture with a hummingbird feeding on their flowers.
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Our Porterweed and Cardinal Climber seeds have arrived. We purchased our seeds online from Onalee Seeds & Plants. The ordering process was very easy, highly efficient and we got our seeds in a couple of days. Reason we got the Porterweed seeds is because we keep seeing pictures of hummingbirds feeding on this plant. We’re not really sure how the Porterweed is going to work for the hummingbirds but from what we have read this is a can’t miss plant for butterflies. As for the Cardinal Climber we are going to try it in a large hanging basket on our deck, looks and sounds like a good hummingbird plant. We’ll make future posts on how these plants turn out. If anybody has any experience or information about these plants we would be happy to hear from you.
Winter is the perfect time for making plans for the hummingbird migration in the Spring. Here are a few suggestions. Reading up on the type of flowers you may want to have in your garden this year. Possibly purchasing seeds to get the plants you want ready for an early start. Get any new hummingbird feeders so they’ll be up and ready for when the hummingbirds arrive.
Below is a book we thought should help you in attracting hummingbirds to your garden. It also has information in it about attracting butterflies, which is also something we enjoy. Our butterfly bush not only attracts butterflies but there are times the hummingbirds take great interest in it, too.
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