attract hummingbirds to you yard

Hummingbirds are easy to attract and care for. Better yet, these birds are loyal.
Once they find a habitat that satisfies their needs, they return year after year.

The key to attracting hummingbirds to your yard is to plant lots of flowers and provide the habitat that will give them shade, shelter, food, and security.

• Herbs, flowering shrubs, dwarf trees, and vines all can be used to create an ideal habitat from ground level to 10 feet or more.

• Hummingbirds love water, especially if it is moving. A gentle, continuous spray from a nozzle or a sprinkler hose is perfect for a bath on the fly.

• Hummingbirds do not have a keen sense of smell and rely on bright colors to find their food.

• They are particularly fond of red and are often observed investigating red plant labels, thermometers, and even red clothes on a gardener.

• Brightly–colored flowers that are tubular hold the most nectar, and are particularly attractive to hummingbirds. These include perennials such as bee balms, columbines, daylilies, and lupines; biennials such as foxgloves and hollyhocks; and many annuals, including cleomes, impatiens, and petunias.

Here is a list of some of the plants that attract hummingbirds. 

Common Name	Latin Name
Allium	Allium
Aster	Aster
Bee balm	Monarda
Butterfly bush	Buddleia
Catmint	Nepeta
Clove Pink	Dianthus
Cornflower	Centaurea
Daylily	Hemerocallis
False indigo	Baptisia
Fleabane	Erigeron
Floss flower	Ageratum
Globe thistle	Echinops
Goldenrod	Solidago
Helen's flower	Helenium
Hollyhock	Alcea
Honeysuckle	Lonicera
Lavender	Lavendula
Lilac	Syringa
Lupine	Lupinus
Lychnis	Lychnis
Mallow	Malva
Milkweed	Asclepias
Mint	Mentha
Pansy	Viola
Phlox	Phlox
Privet	Ligustrum
Purple coneflower	Echinacea
Purple loosestrife	Lythrum
Rock cress	Arabis
Sage	Salvia
Sea holly	Eryngium
Shasta daisy	Chrysanthemum
Snapdragon	Antirrhinum
Stonecrop	Sedum
Sweet alyssum	Lobularia
Sweet rocket	Hesperis
Tickseed	Coreopsis
Zinnia	Zinnia

easy mango chutney

mini peach raspberry pie

Mini Peach Raspberry Pie Recipe

3 cups organic peaches (frozen or fresh)
3/4 cup organic raspberries (frozen or fresh)
1/2 cup and 1 tablespoon white sugar
2 tablespoon and 3/4 teaspoon flour
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

2 pie crusts
1 tablespoon butter, softened
2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Preheat oven to 375℉. 

If using frozen fruit, drain in a strainer to remove excess liquid.  Warm in a saucepan on low heat.  Gently fold in the sugar, flour and cinnamon. 

Roll out the pie crust and cut with a biscuit cutter, glass or bowl depending on the size of your muffin tin. Press crust into greased muffin tin.  Add fruit filling from sauce pan and top with a layer of crust.   Cut vents into the top of the crust.  Brush the butter onto the top crust and sprinkle with sugar. 

Bake for 25 - 35 minutes, until crust is golden.

Potato Cabbage Dish

1/2 small cabbage, shredded
 2 Yukon potatoes (or other type),  peeled or unpeeled
 1/2 small onion, finely chopped
 caraway seeds, to taste
 1-2 tablespoons curry powder
 1 cup grated carrots
salt and pepper, to taste
water/broth
canola oil


Cook potatoes and cube. Saute onion in a tablespoon of canola oil. Add caraway seeds.  
Mix curry powder with enough water or broth to make a paste and  add to pan. Add cubed potatoes, shredded cabbage and carrots. 
Add about 1/2 cup broth or water and salt and pepper. Cook until cabbage and carrots are done. Serve.