Favorite hummingbird plants part sun?
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Comments (7)Ferncreek, I have Trillium sessile - toad trillium to trade. But, we are having e-mail problems....haven't received one all day. I'll e-mail you, as soon as we get it straightened out. I am interested in your Lonicera sempervirens. Dee...See MoreHummingbirds in Florida? Part 2
Comments (15)It has been over a year since my last post so I will post an update. SUCCESS! I am happy to report that all the hard work has paid off! I've had three RTH's vist my garden since the last posting! Two males and a female, the males came in March. They were both migrants and only stayed for a couple days. Both of them showed up on tail ends of cold fronts, feeding only from my feeders. The female showed up around the end of May and stayed until the end of August. She would feed only from my flowers, she would look at my feeders but would not feed from them. She wouldn't stick around all day either, rather she would come and feed and then fly off somewhere else. There was a point where she wasn't seen for two to three weeks. I assume she was sitting on a nest? The flowers she seemed to favor was coral honeysuckle, black and blue salvia, batfaced and matchless cuphea. Was a little sad to see her go for the winter. But I'm hoping I can get some winter birds to spend some time with me this winter....we'll have to wait and see! This post was edited by TroyinLargo on Mon, Oct 28, 13 at 13:48...See MoreWhat's your favorite part sun/part shade bush/shrub?
Comments (6)Thanks to all. As for placement, I have several places, ranging from part sun to part shade to full shade, but I'm not looking at any deep shade areas right now. Some of my full shade areas are along the driveway and behave as a woodland edge, but the trees on the other side of the area make it dappled sun most of the day so it is shady. But, having some under canopy things right along that edge would be beautiful. Before this year shade=hosta. This summer the world of shade opened up and I'm so excited about all the options. I think I've also become very content with the "un-catalogue" appearance of plants. Before, the lusher and more prolific a plant/tree bloomed the better. Now I'm really seeing beauty in a tree that has more "zen" to it--branches reaching towards the light with fewer blooms, but with a beauty in the sparseness that adds shape, color, and variety to shadier areas. Add to that woodland edge plants here and there, like all those wonderful asters along the roadsides, and it gets even better. NH Babs, I have four Aralia 'Sun Kings' that I planted in August in strategic areas. I'm hoping that the way I've placed them creates both repetition and bright color. Can't wait for next year to see how they do! I'll be reporting on how tall they get given thymetodig's experiences in NH. One of mine is in full shade all day, meaning I don't think the sun hits it directly although it does good dappled shade. The other three are opposite each other with different sun exposure, so a comparison of those three will be enlightening. I'll respond more fully to all the suggestions later. Extremely busy couple of weeks right now!...See MoreWhat plants for very moist! almost boggy! only part sun?
Comments (31)I third asclepias incarnata, don't know why I didn't list it...it's in my bed. I've grown several native obedient plants (virginiana, angustifolia, and intermedia), all fine plants that umm...strangely were out-competed in my borders. When I grew it in a normal bed (way before I tried to crowd and weave natives together), virginiana was unstoppable. This may well be my fault, because it's normally described as almost invasive...but not for me. As Jay may have described in this thread, a number of my plants thrive so well that my entire back yard is more native plant than grass (which I have been known to stop mowing at times in places, just to let say lobelia cardinalis, bloom for a month or two). I use no herbicides (except on privet and honeysuckle that encroach)....See MoreLilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
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