Creating a Hummingbird Garden

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Turn your garden into a glorious haven for hummingbirds. Here are the basics on planning, planting, and maintaining a beautiful outdoor space that will lure these tiny creatures and give you hours of gardening pleasure. This charmingly illustrated volume provides a variety of garden plans, including essential information on hardiness zones, soil conditions, and sun and shade preferences, and is packed with facts on the lives and habits of hummingbirds. When your winged guests linger in your garden, you'll delight in consulting the hummingbird identifier in Creating a Hummingbird Garden. Here is everything you need to know to attract hummingbirds, from their favorite flowers to instructions for making hummingbird feeders.

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(5 stars) - Creating a Hummingbird Garden
A great book that I will use this winter as I look forward to planting my flower garden in the spring!

(4 stars) - CREATING A HUMMINGBIRD GARDEN
This book came promptly and was in fair condition as stated.
Thanks
Ruth Glenn Little

(2 stars) - nice concept, but more of a pamphlet than a book
This is a tiny book, more of a children's book than a resource for serious gardeners. It's attractively designed and laid out, but the informational content is limited. The information on selecting plants for a hummingbird garden is not entirely accurate -- for example, wooly blue curls (trichostema lanatum) are actually not "well-adapted to various soil types". Unfortunately that's almost all the book had to say about this beautiful but temperamental western native, which requires especially well-drained soil.
Part of the problem is that this book doesn't address regional differences. Perhaps it would be suitable for residents of the east coast or Midwest. For residents of western states, I would recommend looking elsewhere, such as books on native plants or the Sunset guide to Western Gardens.

(4 stars) - its about hummies and their gardens
Nicely done book on how to set up and make your yard and gardens ripe for bringing
hummies to your house and gardens. Helpful hints, good pictures or where and
how to set up and much more. After looking over some of the info in the book, I
shifted my hummingbird feeders to the back porch. I got more hummies to stop and was
able to photograph more of them too.

(4 stars) - Good, not great
I will preface this by saying that this is the first book I purchased on this subject, so I don't have a large pool of measurables to compare it to.

That said, there was some good basic information in this book, and it's a good jumping off point. I liked that it gave some general overviews of plants the birds like, and when they bloom, etc.

I would have liked a bit more on the specifics of the birds themselves... but perhaps that's best found in a book specific about birds, as opposed to the gardens that attract them. For some reason, I thought there might be a little more of that included though.

Overall, I'll recommed it. As stated, it's a good place to start, and using this information along with information you get from your local nursery professional should give a place to begin bringing the bird to your yard.

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