Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds make the Southwestern garden. They show up in mid April and stay until just before the first frost in the fall.

My garden is a regular stop-over for hungry hummers. I have several feeders for them filled with sugar water, and many more plants in the front yard just for them. They appreciate the agastaches, pestemons, Cape Honeysuckles, jasmins, bee balm and pineapple sage I got just for them.

I enjoy watching the hummingbirds. This morning one little bird flew around the sprinkler water as I misted the front yard after sunrise. The little bird never stopped, but it was apparent that it was refreshing itself in the mist as it flew from flower to flower.

I also have a two-gallon "pond" between two euliopsis and another terra cotta tray that I fill up with fresh water every day for the other birds that come by every day. I also have various seeds out for the hungry finches, thrashers, doves, Gambel Quails, ravens and wrens that I have spotted in the yard.