[birdky] Re: Hummingbird Plants
- From: "Fry, Joyce (EEC)" <joyce.fry@xxxxxx>
- To: <pns_for@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <jackiebelmore@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <wrscates@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mark Monroe" <markmonroe1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:20:29 -0400
Better to plant native plants so as to reduce impacts to the natural
world. I have much success with obedient plant, great blue lobelia,
cardinal flower and trumpet honeysuckle, just to name a few.
Joyce Fry, Environmental Biologist Consultant
Water Quality Certification Section
200 Fair Oaks Lane
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
(502) 564-3410 ext 4878
Fax (502) 564-9636
http://water.ky.gov/permitting/Pages/KYWaterQualityCertProg.aspx
<http://www.water.ky.gov/permitting/wqcert/>
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When
we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold
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On Behalf Of Preston Forsythe
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:58 PM
To: jackiebelmore@xxxxxxxxxxx; wrscates@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mark Monroe
Cc: Waller, Chuck; BirdKY BirdKY Listserve; Bill Walden
Subject: [birdky] Hummingbird Plants
What works for us are honeysuckle, cypress vine, salvia-red hot sally
and trumpet vine.
These all grow like weeds. A 50 foot row of each would feed hundreds of
hummers.
The cypress vine, especially, will really spread but if you put it under
a fence then you can just let it go and run the mower a foot away from
each side. It grows 1/2 ft. a day at this time of the year. What a
climber.
Preston Forsythe in Muhlenberg Co.
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Subject: [birdky] Re: sugar/water ratio for hummers
Sunday 9/12/2010
I am unconvinced that flowers offer that much more in the way of
potential nutrition than our feeders.
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