hummingbirds gardening journals

• 15 Oct 2011

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  frost and fall color for october bloom day

  monkshood Blooming, agastache foeniculum mexican hyssop purple haze Blooming, salvia nuevo leon Blooming, l...
  We spent Bloom Day hiking Guye Peak on a sunny day. First though, i ran to the garden to snap a picture of the mexican hyssop so it could get a Bloom Day Badge. Hummingbirds are still visiting the hyssop regularly so I thought it deserved the honor. Other hummingbird favorites this time of year ...
  Sunny 13°C / 56°F
• 29 Apr 2011

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  Hummingbirds, caterpillars, chickadees (and a fire update of course)

  Trying to focus on the beautiful things still happening here…it’s not all doom and gloom. We are going through two gallons of sugar water a day with all the hummingbirds. If you have followed my blogs for a while you will know that wild animals generally aren’t afraid of me, whi...
  29°C / 84°F
• 11 Feb 2011

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  Hummingbirds

  Rooftop (Balcony) Main Garden garden and Sunbird - Nectarinia Osea (related to hummingbird)
  Apart from parrots, we often get visits from hummingbirds.
  Sunny 13°C / 55°F
• 22 Feb 2009

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  NW Flower and Garden Show weekend

  Lots of great stuff! - pruned the pear tree heavily as part one of it’s restoration - trimmed up the pruned wood for use in bentwood sculptures and structures - pulled two big handfuls of shotweed that was coming up - met Ciscoe Morris at the garden show! - saw lots of new plants that I wo...
  Cloudy 10°C / 50°F
• 24 Jun 2008

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  garden maps and mystery plants

  For the last couple of days I have determinedly plugged away at drawing up current bed plans, making plant lists for each bed and sorting out the plant labels that go with each list. As a gardening friend said today surveying my plot, “For a very small garden you have an enormous number of ...
  Cloudy 20°C / 68°F

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