The art of hummingbird gardening: how to make your backyard into a beautiful home for hummingbirds

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Is Hummingbird Gardening?; Chapter 2: Hummingbird Lives; Chapter 3: Regions and Seasons; Chapter 4: Getting Started.; Chapter 5: Hummingbird Flowers; Chapter 6: Hummingbird Feeders; Chapter 7: Hummingbird Garden Activities.; Chapter 8: Conservation of Hummingbirds; Fifteen North American Garden Hummingbirds; Cultivated Plants for Attracting Hummingbirds.; Native Plants for Attracting Hummingbirds; Bibliography.; About the Photographs; Index.;This book is devoted solely to hummingbird gardening and is a practical guide to cultivating flowers and other plants that will attract the hummingbirds of North America to your home and garden. You will be able to grow flowers in profusion and provide nectar for these smallest of birds, which hover on fast-beating wings while they drink from flowers including pink Chinese lantern, bladderpod, woolly blue curls, scarlet sage, penstemon, columbine, long strips of fuschia, and many others. The Hummingbird Garden is packed with pertinent information, from a description of what hummingbird gardening is all about to how hummingbirds can be conserved and protected. Tekulsky explains the extraordinary way hummingbirds live and behave, the regions they inhabit throughout the year, and their migrating habits. He discusses how to start your own garden by recommending what to plant and then outlines what interesting events will take place in it. The valuable appendixes give ...