Showing posts with label hummingbird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hummingbird. Show all posts

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Japanese Maple

red is like a giant bouquet in the landscape.


Thursday, April 3, 2008

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)


Come, come to me little one. The HummZinger is filled and all the flowers await you. Pear, peach, cherry, forsythia, daffodils, violets, dogwood, honeysuckle, pansy, sage, salvia, candytuft and hellebore are here to welcome you.


Arrival 10:30 A.M.
Well, hello. We've been expecting you.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Beautiful Season

I'm glad I didn't remove the cypress vines during garden clean up a few days ago. Today I saw a straggler hummingbird. The summer resident hummingbirds left a couple of weeks ago.



Test Your Botanical Knowledge
This herbaceous perennial with graceful, branching stems 2-4 feet high from a clump of dark green, 3-5 lobed leaves covered with soft hairs, flowers with 2-3 inches across, semi-double in white, pink, or rose blooms in the fall. There are many named varieties.

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