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Posted by ellix augusta ga (My Page) on Sun, Jul 22, 07 at 10:50
| I read somewhere that impatiens are attractive to humming birds. Has anyone found this to be ture? If so which colors do they come to? |
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RE: hummingbirds
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| Humming birds do like the native species like Impatiens capensis but I have noticed they will go for Impatiens niamniamensis and other similar red flowered plants. Hummers tend to like red or orange and flowers that are rather tubular in shape. |
RE: hummingbirds
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| I have Pixie impatiens planted bare-root in the rocks around my pond. Just yesterday I saw a hummer at the impatiens for the first time ever. I have mostly pastel colors and he really didn't seem to prefer one over the other....he just dashed around visiting all of them. He was also visiting my lavender lantana. |
RE: hummingbirds
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| I have dazzler white and red star impatiens in my backyard, and I've seen my hummingbird visiting them several times in the past few weeks. |
RE: hummingbirds
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| I've found the same thing - never heard that they were particularly attracted to them - thought it was a fluke! YES, I've seen multipled times hummers at my impatiens - I have red, 'purple star' (pink) and white infinity imps. GREAT that someone else has had this experience! |
RE: hummingbirds
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| I had a hummer on my 14th story balcony many times this summer visiting my Impatiens glandulifera and Asclepias curassavica flowers. |
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