May 29 2015
I have been feeding the hummingbirds more than 30 years and they never cease to amaze me. My neighbor has a honeysuckle bush and I have one on an arbor & chain link fence. The neighbor’s blooms a few weeks before mine does and is a shade darker orange. The hummers love these. I have two humming bird feeders on hooks on each side of my bush.
For years I had a trumpet vine woven in my red wood privacy fence, it was the hummer’s favorite flower I ever had planted. The vines got too large, tearing up my fence and I was tired of keeping it off my house. If you plant one of these it needs to be out away from buildings; it will attach to the buildings.
Another flower they love is impatients and I have been planting them in pots on the north side of my garage for years. This is the best way to have a weed free flower bed; mulch or stones in the bed and flowers in pots! I have never been very good at keeping the weeds out of flower beds so most of my flowers are in pots and hanging baskets.
One of my neighbors has beautiful flower beds and works in them all the time; about half of her back yard is flower beds.
You can see the neighbors honeysuckle behind mine
My feeders
My workshop and my dog looking on. Small garden on the left with 6 tomato plants, two square tiles have basil in and the two round ones have chives that are blooming now. Some day lilies in the front and on the right are, day lilies, weeds, grass and garlic chives.
Privacy fence that used to have trumpet vines. The steps are from a wooden hot tub we had for 15 years. The old pump is just for decoration.
My only weed free flower bed!
Smokin Don