By this time you should have your gardens cut out, edged and cultivated. Your seeds should soon begin to sprout into little baby seedlings. Now is the perfect time to think about a few additions to start attracting your wild garden birds.
No flower garden would be complete without the sweet songs of wild birds. […]

While tending to my own garden, I have found that one of the most frustrating things that can happen to a gardener is to walk outside to check on your plants. It’s just a routine walk to make sure that your garden is thriving, but you end up finding holes in all of your […]

The following list will help you in choosing the right plants and flowers to attract and feed humming birds.
Trees and Shrubs

Azalea
Butterfly Bush (Buddleia)
Cape Honeysuckle
Flame Acanthus
Flowering Quince
Lantana
Manzanita
Mimosa
Red Buckeye
Tree Tobacco
Turk’s Cap
Weigela

Vines

Coral Honeysuckle
Cypress Vine
Morning Glory
Scarlet Runner Bean
Trumpet Creeper

Flowers
Some may be annuals or perennials depending on climate.
Perennials

Bee Balm (Monarda)
Canna
Cardinal Flower
Columbine
Coral Bells
Four O’Clocks
Foxglove
Hosta
Hummingbird Mint (Agastache)
Little Cigar
Lupine
Penstemon
Yucca

Annuals

Beard Tongue (and other […]

American Goldfinch
The Eastern or American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) is a typical North American seed-eating member of the finch (Fringillidae) family, averaging 11 cm in length. It breeds across southern Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland and through most of the United States north of the Gulf and core Southwestern States.
It prefers trees in open places, […]

Purple Finch
The Purple Finch, Carpodacus purpureus, is a small finch.
Adults have a short forked brown tail and brown wings. Adult males are raspberry red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back is streaked. Adult females have light brown upperparts and white underparts with dark brown streaks throughout; they have a white line on […]

Pine Siskin
The Pine Siskin, Carduelis pinus, is a small finch.
Adults are brown on the upperparts and pale on the underparts, with heavy streaking throughout. They have a short forked tail. They have yellow patches in their wings and tail, not always visible; otherwise, it appears to be a very small streaked sparrow.
Their breeding habitat is […]

House Finch
The House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) is a medium-sized finch.
Adults have a long brown tail and are a brown or dull-brown color across the back with some shading into deep grey on the wing feathers. Breast and belly feathers may be streaked. In most cases, adult males have a reddish color to their heads, necks […]

Common Rosefinch
The Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) is the most widespread and common rosefinch of Europe, where it has spread westward from Asia. Common Rosefinches breed from Sweden and Siberia to the Bering Sea; the Caucasus, northern Iran and Afghanistan, Pakistan and the western Himalaya, Tibet and China; to Japan between latitudes 25º and 68º. In […]

Cassin’s Finch
The Cassin’s Finch, Carpodacus cassinii, is a medium-sized finch.
Adults have a short forked brown tail and brown wings. They have a longer bill than the Purple Finch. Adult males are raspberry red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back and undertail are streaked. Adult females have light brown upperparts and light underparts […]