Whenever a hummingbird visits your garden - darting, swooping, pausing mid-flight to assess a bloom - it stops you in your tracks. Learn how to attract these fancy fliers on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 3:30 p.m. at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.
The Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden's Valen-tine's Day talk this year is, Hummingbird madness: plants to attract and keep these avian acrobats in your garden year round, with Ciscoe Morris.
Every Seattle gardener knows Morris, personality of radio and TV, newspaper columnist and author of the bestseller, Oh La La! Your Gardening Questions Answered. For 24 years he directed the gardening and landscaping at Seattle University. His talk here on the Sunshine Coast in 2006 was so well received, we've asked him back.
Learn what early-blooming shrubs attract hummers, what they need for successful nesting, what nectar-rich flowers they like best, what late-blooming ones keep them late in the season, and how best to keep a healthy hummingbird feeder. Your garden will be as lively as it is lovely.
Morris is known for making every garden topic entertaining, and his knowledge and experience is extensive. What captivates his audiences, though, is his "life-is-so-much-fun" attitude and his on-stage antics. By the time the lights go up, you'll be certain to have new ways to attract and keep hummingbirds happy. You might even have them fighting to get into your garden!
Tickets are $15 for Bot-anical Garden Society members and $18 for non-members, on sale at the Sechelt Visitors Centre, most nurseries and at the door.
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