Category Archives: Hummingbirds
Lantana Reviews – 2011
This time of the year, mid-August, the champion nectar plant in my garden is lantana. Butterflies and hummingbrids both are attracted to its sweet nectar. The four varieties pictured above are the ones I am testing out this year. Ham … Continue reading
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Planting Next to the Basement
One of the tricks I have learned is that with some plants, if you plant them next to a basement wall, they will return every year even if they otherwise would die out in the rest of the garden. My … Continue reading
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Happy Days Are Here Again
May 11th – the garden is filling up with it’s usual residents. Monarchs are laying eggs, hummingbirds are nectaring and the goldfinch are eating the aphids on my red honeysuckle. Since we never did get a late frost, everything looks … Continue reading
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Growing Plants next to the Basement Foundation
One trick I use with Black and Blue Salvia is to grow it next to my basement foundation. It has come back for the last 2 years that way while the plants which I left in the open have died. … Continue reading
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How to Grow Zone 8 Plants in Zone 5
Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ , is normally a zone 8 to 10 plant according to the Missouri Botanical Garden. In St.Louis, normally a Zone 5 area, we experienced temperatures in the Zero degree range this winter. I took a … Continue reading
Filed under Hummingbirds, Nectar Plant
