Showing posts with label firebush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firebush. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Saw my first hummingbird for this season.



Yesterday morning I was washing dishes, looking out back into our secret garden as I did so. There is a firebush or hamelia patens planted in the hedge that surrounds this garden. Butterflies love it and so do hummingbirds. I get so excited every time I see a hummingbird. Only got one picture last year and it wasn't that great. I hope to get some good ones this time.

I need to plant more things to draw them to our property.


Here is the picture from last year.






A flash of harmless lightning,

A mist of rainbow dyes,

The burnished sunbeams brightening

From flower to flower he flies.

John Banister Tabbs
Humming Bird