I love fuchsia. More important, hummingbirds love fuchsia. Every year, I try to buy a couple of hanging pots of dark red fuchsia for the deck. I have two hooks, specially installed, entirely for that purpose.
The past two years, I’ve missed my chance. The local nursery only stocks a couple of dozen pots of it. They are gone within 24 hours.
When we got up this morning, it was bright, sunny, and warm.
The leaves popped out mid morning. By noon, everything was blooming.
By two, when we arrived at the nursery, they had only half a dozen fuchsia remaining. I bought two and rushed them home. I watered and refreshed them, hung them on their hooks where they await the arrival of hummingbirds.
It’s going to be a great summer.
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SOLOMON’S SEAL IN BLOOM 
GARDEN ON THE DECK 
AN INDEPENDENT GARDEN 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
I was going to say, “extraordinary wrendition!” I’m glad DailyMusings has already apprehended the striped culprit.
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I was glad to find out that it wasn’t my imagination. That little bird is really LOUD and the whirling dervish of the birdie world. I feel honored to have captured an image that was in focus. Wrendition. {Groan.}
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A beautiful view to enjoy
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If I don’t have flowers on the deck, I don’t believe it’s summer 🙂
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Very true
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we have fuchsia in Switzerland, one of Mr. Swiss favourites. We cannot keep them through the Winter, so you buy new every year and we always have a good selection. One thing we do not have are humming birds and I would so love to see them. I have only seen films and photos from the states and they are really fascinating sweet little birds.
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Yes, they are tropical plants. We buy them for the summer, but they die with the frost. I always feel guilty when they die, as if it’s my fault.
The hummingbirds are a bonus. I didn’t know there were any hummingbirds around here until they showed up to visit the fuchsia. The are so tiny, it’s easy to miss them even when they are right in front of you.
I wish I could keep the fuchsia alive through the winter, but even if you bring them indoors, they die anyhow. I think they are annuals, not perennials. They have a season and then are gone. If I think of them that way, I don’t feel so bad.
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Fuchsia are bacially perrenniels if they don’t freeze through the Winter. The english seem to have found the solution. They have them in the garden and give them protection through the Winter by keeping their feet warm and wrapping them in warmth. An english Winter can be mild and the chances are quite good, I have a few relations that manage with this, but you really have to take care of them and make sure the frost does not get to them, but it can work.
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I’ve tried bringing them indoors, but they don’t like indoors. Maybe if I had a hothouse, but I don’t. Our winters, as you probably surmised, are anything but mild. So they die each winter. Sounds like the name of some overly dramatic movie!
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Oh drool….thanks a lot, now I have to drive to the nursery, buy hanging plants, spend money..and will blame it on you in case my hubby will ask (what he won’t). I love Hummingbirds. I love to see everything blooming, I needed that or my soul.
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I think we ALL need beautiful things around us. It feeds us. It certainly feeds me … AND it doesn’t make me fat!
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Quick question, do you prefer to write a story to a picture I will post for Wednesday or can/should I do it?
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Your story, your picture. The post to link to will be up at midnight, but it’s already listed on the page, even though it won’t go live until just after midnight. Maybe I should post Wednesday’s prompt/link on Tuesday? I’m getting confused.
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Oh I missed it. Well, then use it for next week, this way you don’t have to change anything. No problem for me.
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No, you didn’t miss it. It comes out TOMORROW after midnight!!!!!
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After two summers without one single hummingbird I have decided to give Hummingbird Haven a miss this year. Maybe you could put out the word for next summer … https://dcmontreal.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/hummingbird-haven-where-words-dont-matter/
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They don’t listen. Naughty little birds, they just don’t! Last summer, they were few and far between. I put it down to not having the right flowers. But fuchsia are hummingbird crack cocaine, so if I see them, I’ll tell them you miss them (hug, hug)…
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Do hummingbirds need sponsors?
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Probably.
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You will for sure. Looking forward to more such colorful posts. Beautiful flower pots.
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Thank you. I photograph my flowers a lot. They are the most convenient things to photograph being right outside my kitchen. It really improves my view on the world 🙂
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Beautiful colors and I love the way Fuchsia hangs. I think that’s a Carolina Wren you’ve got there too!
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Is that what he is? What’s it doing up HERE? It has the loudest song I’ve heard. I can hear him from anywhere in the house, including in the front yard. I believe he and his lady friend are building a nest in the crook of that tree by the deck. I’m going to have to look him up!
I do believe you are right! Up to and including the decibel level. Apparently this is one of the garden birds who has been expanding his range, so he now can be found all up and down the east coast. THANK you. I don’t feel so bad about having so much trouble getting his picture. He is NEVER still, but always issuing piercing cries. Melodious, but loud.
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They are fast as lightning and the cutest little things! I had one come during the winter to my feeder. Their markings are so pretty -enjoy them!
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He makes quite a racket. I’ve shots literally hundreds of frames trying to catch him and finally got those two. He’s quite the super hyper active little fellow. And so LOUD.
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Oh yes – I am SO pleased it is summer 🙂 Such a beautiful place you find yourself, your surrounds look stunning- special.
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It is even more green today, though humid. Rained overnight, which may have helped. Everything looks refreshed 🙂
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Splendid! 😀
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I’m so pleased to have scored to hanging pots! It makes me smile every time I look out the window.
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Hanging pots are pretty awesome things right 😀 They SHOULD make you smile. It is a nice pleasing feeling that.
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I have no doubt about it. You are blessed with a great view Marilyn 🙂
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The fuchsia definitely improve the view. I like seeing them when I am anywhere on that side of the house. Better than the huge mounds of snow!
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