Use Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds to your Garden
Hummingbirds are one of the most amazing birds on the planet. They are tiny, beautiful, and quick, and are also really interesting to watch. Hummingbirds are a native bird of North America living from Chile to Alaska.
If you want hummingbirds to visit your garden there are two ways to get them to come.
It is important to find out which part of year they are in your area of the country so that you can plant the kind of flowers they are attracted to, and be sure they are blooming at that time.
Red and orange flowers with a tubular shape are the type of flower that hummingbirds especially enjoy.
Their favorite flowers are usually annuals but they also like shrubs, vines and perennials. They are not the most difficult bird to please. The flowers they are attracted to also depend on the place where you live.
Agastache, azalea, cardinal flower, dahlia, heuchera, hollyhock, and trumpet honeysuckle are some of the flowers you might like to try. It is also important that you don’t use pesticides, because hummingbirds like to feed on insects as well.
If you live in an apartment you can also buy a hummingbird feeder to attract some visitors.
[Via: diggin'it blog]
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