The Great Outdoors – the Hummingbird Garden at Dusk

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Dusk has been my favorite time to be outdoors lately.  The temperature is cooler, the light is soft and the sunsets are amazing.  And the hummingbirds—ohhh, the hummingbirds.  I think dusk is their favorite time, too.  They buzz all around my gardens and the pots on my deck, feeding often from my red salvia, lantana, tangerine sage and bee balm.  At dusk, my deck-slash-hummingbird garden is the best place to sit still and watch, read book in the fading light or water the flowers and enjoy the sights and sounds of the nature around me.

Thanks to the pots on my deck, I haven't had to make hummingbird nectar (recipe here) and hang my feeder.

These lantana lure hummingbirds right up to my back door.  I can see them all the way from the kitchen!

  

This hibiscus flower will bloom tomorrow.

I can't wait for these trumpet vines to bloom.  Hummingbirds love the bright red little trumpets...and I do, too!  Bee balm is on its way out.