We plant petunias every year but they don't touch them or my giant Hibiscus. They like the Hosta and wild morning glory as well as the Day lilies and another bulb that ICRC the name of but grows like crazy in my soil. When you say Honeysuckle is it the white blooming wild vine or the orange succulent that grows near water?
It's a non wild one. It's called a fire or something like that honeysuckle. We do have the wild invasive ones like you mentioned, but I don't think they hit those. Our wild roses are going ballistic now with blooms, but I can't recall if they hit those. The hummers like our Mandeville's too. I know why too. The nectar is super sweet from Mandeville's. I tried if out myself last year.
I keep a potted Mandeville on the back deck on a trellis, can't seem to winter them over so I buy a knock down bargain each year(after mothers day) and bring it back to life for 5 bucks.
It's a gold flame honeysuckle. Hummers have loved it since we planted it about 6-7 years ago. http://www.jacksonandperkins.com/m/...VuJDlrJsJtqsuz-w29NjYWvhUIuAMGmAx8aAvE28P8HAQ
We just buy new Mandeville's every year. They are effortless compared to petunia hanging baskets. They bloom all the time and can handle the heat and less water better. Dry a petunia basket out once, they never look the same. I tried to keep my 2 Mandeville baskets from last year, in the basement, and I cut them back. The wife didn't let them have a chance and chucked them on me.
cut the long petunias back and feed them with Osmocote (couple TB per plant) and feed the hanging baskets with miracle grow once a week - that's why they look so nice when you take them from the greenhouse
A couple pictures from our window. My bride has umpteen feeders...and when I say umpteen that means about a dozen more than any sane person has.
Don't tell my wife about "more" feeders... she wants me to continue to be at constant war with all of the squirrels as the Bird Mafia sniper... ... I told her last fall, no more... you want more feeders, that's fine, but you'll have to feed all of the hungry critters.... I'm gettin' soft, I know but, that seems to have kept the feeder number about the same...
We take the seed feeder down in the summer and put hummingbird feeders up. When the seed feeder is up, it's dominated by birds we'd rather not have that drive all the other birds away. We end up seeing birds that wouldn't come around if the feeder was up. We hang the seed feeder back up in the fall and keep it filled all winter.
They've got a neat little song as well. The two of them are back and forth all day, the chicks are now vocal enough that we can hear them through the kitchen window
Yes, Turkey Vultures, lots of them around here. After the hay's cut, they come in and clean up whatever was killed in the process, birds, mice, turtles and whatnot.
I always make a big deal out of seeing an oriole. They are beautiful birds, and not common around here. I only see one about every other year, or so.
