If you’re relaxing in your garden and detect a humming sound, chances are you’re being visited by one of the smallest birds, the hummingbird. These tiny creatures flap their wings so rapidly that they ...

Hummingbirds migrate north in the spring, and their arrival is eagerly anticipated by some gardeners. Certain plants, like cuphea, geraniums, impatiens, lantana, nicotiana, petunias, salvias, and ...

You know that weird, fidgety feeling you get at the end of winter? The beds are bare, the soil’s still cold, and the garden looks like it’s given up on life. Meanwhile, the hummingbirds are already on ...

Having a beautiful hummingbird-filled garden doesn't have to be a distant dream, it can be a reality. All it takes to have the hummingbird garden of your dreams is planting a great selection of plants ...

Take a stroll through a garden or restored patch of native plants, and you might catch a creature zipping skillfully among the blooms much like a tiny-but-fierce hummingbird on the hunt for nectar.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We documented the diurnal pattern of nectar volumes in flowers of seven Neotropical hummingbird-pollinated plant species that were open to ...