Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:15:25 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Flowers for Hummingbirds In-Reply-To: <4056F9B0.4060107@starpower.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi -- I noted in Sam Pancake's article in the last ANS newsletter that he found the blue Salvias (several species or cultivars) very good in the autumn after many of these other flowers have declined. These were, of course, the blues that kept our hummer friends at the Ripley Garden happy for so long. Does anyone know where they might be obtained locally? I know they are not native, but... Also, I have had good luck with Pineapple Sage, a late bloomer with spathes of red flowers which attract hummers readily. Obtainable at Benhke's as well as other garden shops (as a herb). Very marginally winter-hardy in right location (which is not our garden!) -- but there is a big plant at the Beltsville Benhke's which withstands every winter as it's in a very sheltered corner. Gail Mackiernan Colesville, MD on 03/16/2004 7:57 AM, Rob Gibbs at robgibbs@STARPOWER.NET wrote: > Greg-- > Here are just a few of the several excellent native species for local > gardens with a succession of bloom to hold a hummer's attention. To > quote Pat Sutton, these are "chocolate cake" for ruby-throated > hummingbirds: ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================