Category: Yard

Hummingbirds at last

I moved the hummingbird feeder from the flowerbed with the hollyhocks (which were largely blocking it) to the one in the middle of the yard. Within fifteen minutes I’d seen two hummingbirds fly up and try it, then flit over to the window where I was standing to glare at me. I gather I need to clean it out and refil it – the internet tells me that hummingbird food (sugarwater) can go bad within a few days if it’s hot, and it has been. Also, rain can get in and dilute it (and it’s been raining) or the feeder can get moldy. On the other hand, the last one I saw try it (today) took several sips before leaving so it must not be too bad.

Now that I have customers it looks like I need to try to take better care of it. Maybe if it gets popular and I let it get empty I’ll manage to get a picture of hummingbirds at the window.

Flowers

By popular (or at least frequent) demand I’m posting pictures from my back yard to show off the flowers. These are all since I got back from Florida, but most if not all are from before I got Dash shaved.

First, a picture of Dash interfering with the natural processes of nature (there was a bee):
Dash interfering

I’m not certain what those yellow flowers are, but they seem to open in the late evening. I’m not sure if it’s because they don’t like the heat of the middle of the day or if they’re just nocturnal. Here’s another picture of them from back in June:
Big Yellow flowers

My hollyhocks have grown big enough that they were blocking the hummingbird feeder (which was never particularly popular based on how little of the food was consumed), so that’s taken down until I decide if I’m going to move the post now that the plants are in the way or just tie the plants back.
Hollyhocks

The climbing rose also is finally in bloom:
Climbing Rose

I have no idea what these are, but they look pretty interesting when they’re blooming (the rest of the time they’re just green and grow like weeds):
Odd Yellow flowers

These did really well last year, but I didn’t see many blooms and now the plant isn’t doing so well.
Yellow and Red flowers

Thankfully these survived me pulling up a bunch of lilac sprouts (which were coming up all around this plant):
Purple bell flowers

Flowers

It rained today so I went out to check on the path to see if it had settled with water running over/through it. As far as I could tell it hadn’t really changed, but I still need to go level one spot. Anyways, while I was outside I noticed that I had a couple of new blooms, so I took pictures:
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