Exotic Passion Flower in Mystic

Pam Arguelles snapped this photo of her first Passion Flower. This very exotic tropical plant has a dozen more buds. It is a fascinating and beautiful flower. The size and structure of flowers of other Passiflora species is optimized for pollination by hummingbirds. The fruit of the plant is the passion fruit. Hundreds of hybrids have been named and hybridizing is currently being done extensively for flowers, foliage and fruit. A number of species of Passiflora are cultivated outside their natural range because of their beautiful flowers. Posted by Nancy Hevenor

Key flowers make garden hum

Forget sugary syrup; Woodland couple demonstrate that right blooms lure hummingbirds

BY JEFFREY MIZE

COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER

Noel Johnson’s Woodland flower garden attracts hummingbirds on July 15. (Photos by ANDREA J. WRIGHT for The Columbian)

WOODLAND — When Noel Johnson was growing up on a Wisconsin farm almost 70 years ago, one of his cherished possessions was a pack of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda trading cards.The cards, procured by mailing in labels from the soda box, depicted birds indigenous to the region. Noel would dutifully scour the countryside trying to match the real thing to the pack of cards he carried in his pocket. "It was something you always could do," he said. "There was no TV."Today, Noel has a little easier time spotting his feathered friends than he did during those frigid Wisconsin winters as a young boy. Actually, his colorful flowers do most of the work. All Noel and his wife, Nancy, have to do is watch the action from outside their home on the North Fork of the Lewis River a mile from Woodland. Read more>

Green thumbs up: Plant versatile vines for colorful flowers that attract hummingbirds - Kingston, MA - Kingston Reporter

Few moments in a gardener’s day compare to the thrill of watching a hummingbird hover at your flowers. For several weeks, this wondrous little bird has been a regular visitor, darting about my gardens several times a day in its quest for nectar and tiny insects to sustain its remarkably high rate of metabolism. Suspended in midair among the flowers, our smallest bird appears to be dancing on puppet strings as it probes each tubular blossom.

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Green thumbs up: Plant versatile vines for colorful flowers that attract hummingbirds - Kingston, MA - Kingston Reporter

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