![]() If they run out of flowers (re: food) they’ll go elsewhere! Be sure to plant a wide variety of flowers that will bloom over a long period. Try to make sure that you have flowers in bloom from the time they arrive in mid May to the time that they leave in mid September. It is also important to have flowers for as long as possible. A good example is petunias- while hummingbirds love the single flowered forms, double flowered forms are useless to them. Please also be aware that when gardening for hummingbirds, it is important to use single flowered forms rather than double flowered forms doubles rarely yield nectar. The only thing safe to feed hummingbirds is pure sugar do not give them honey, Splenda, 7Up, or anything else! (*People have done so and made hummingbirds sick.) Make sure the solution in the feeder is not allowed to spoil or go rancid. Hummingbird feeders should be high quality (cheap ones leak and thus attract tons of ants and wasps) and should be hung in a sheltered area. Hummingbirds are really forest birds they travel up to the boreal forest for the summer and that’s where they nest! This is why our customers up north can get them within moments of hanging up a feeder! Folks in towns and cities can indeed get a visit from them, but unless your yard and your neighbour’s yard is FULL of flowers, they usually won’t stick around too long. Ruby-throated hummingbirds travel through Saskatchewan twice a year on their spring migration in mid to late May, and on their fall migration in mid to late August through September. ![]() ![]() Hummingbird Plants for Saskatchewan Gardeners: By Lyndon Penner
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