Summer Garden- Native Plants and Wildlife Habitat. Part-2
Summer garden with native plants and healthy ecosystem can be very resilient and continue to support wildlife even during hot summer weather
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Episode 22
Native Plants Featured
- Annual sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
- Gregg's mistflower (Conoclinium greggii)
- Palo verde -"Desert Museum" (Parkinsonia )
- New Mexico privet (Forestiera neomexicana)
- Black dalea (Dalea frutescens)
- Skeletonleaf goldeneye (Viguiera stenoloba)
- Sand-Bells (Nama hispidum)
- Silver ponyfoot (Dichondra argentea)
- Trailing Windmill vine (Allionia incarnata)
- Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora)
- Wolfberry (Lycium andersonii)
- Autumn sage (Salvia greggii)
- Desert red bird-of-paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima)
- Golden columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha)
- Cherry skullcap (Scutellaria suffrutescens)
- Yellow bells (Tecoma stans)
Wildlife Mentioned
- Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria)
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
- Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
- Cooper's Hawk (Astur cooperii)
If you need more information on Hummingbird feeders, if safe to use and is it beneficial then please listen to episode 5.
Also for humminbird nectar ( sugar water ) recipe and correct ratio : visit link given below for Audubon.org
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-make-hummingbird-nectar
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