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Mini Hummingbird Gardening Guide

Mini Hummingbird Gardening Guide

7 Steps to Hummingbird Gardening
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 8/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Hummingbird

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 2m total length

  • Welcome0:22

    Begin your mini hummingbird gardening journey by mastering seven steps to hummingbird gardening from the guide by Expert Press and Essie Thorne, narrated by Teresa L. Boothe.

  • Introduction1:34

    Discover how to create a hummingbird garden in any space with seven simple steps, attracting iridescent visitors that eat pests and brighten your yard with red tubular blossoms.

  • Part 1 - Do Your Hummingbird Homework2:31

    Learn where hummingbirds live in the western hemisphere, their migration patterns, and how to garden for them across North and Central America.

  • Part 2 - Sketch Your Blueprint10:48

    Study your space across seasons to map light, shade, and sun angles, then sketch a blueprint with planters, window boxes, and a lattice for a thriving hummingbird habitat.

  • Part 3 - Hummingbird Feeders6:11

    Explore why feeders matter, how to choose red, pest-resistant designs, and how to prepare sugar water and place multiple feeders to attract and sustain hummingbirds.

  • Part 4 - Choosing Your Plants23:33

    Choose red blooms and limit white or yellow to attract hummingbirds, while planning perennials, annuals, vines, and shrubs within a blueprint that guides spacing and sun and water needs.

  • Part 5 - Plant Your Flowers7:11

    Prepare the soil, test and amend with organic and inorganic additives, then plant starts with proper spacing and watering to establish a hummingbird garden.

  • Part 6 - Learn Your Species5:50

    Identify local hummingbird species by observing colors, tail shape, beak, and crown features, and track individual birds across seasons using a field guide, binoculars, photos, and a journal.

  • Part 7 - Relax and Enjoy!4:47

    Relax and enjoy your hummingbird garden as you replenish fresh sugar water, keep feeders stocked, and attract hummingbirds with native wildflowers that provide high-quality nectar.

Requirements

  • None

Description

If you want to learn about hummingbird gardening, then get Mini Hummingbird Gardening Guide which is a fun and easy to read course with interesting facts and thorough information.

- The 7 steps are easy to follow and well organized

- Everything you need to know to create a hummingbird garden is all in one course, and it even includes a mini hummingbird field guide so you don’t have to go buy one separately

- It was educational and entertaining at the same time, making me look forward to the new garden and excited to pick out my plants

- Loaded with fabulous images of vivid flowers and iridescent hummingbirds, Hosting Hummers is a true visual treat that is relaxing and therapeutic to look through

- Written with the hummingbirds’ best interests in mind, this little course not only tells you how to attract hummingbirds, but it also tells you how to take care of them and keep them coming back year after year

- Hosting Hummers is a very versatile and useful course because it speaks about all styles and sizes of hummingbird gardens, so even if you have a small area to work with, you can still make good use of your space.

About the Expert

Essie Thorn has been gardening for hummingbirds for 35 years in the Pacific Northwest, and what started as a hobby has become her real area of expertise, mostly from years of trial and error, and from keeping good notes about what worked and what didn’t.

As an avid collector of all things hummingbird, Essie has been hooked on birds and blooms since childhood and has designed many hummingbird gardens over the years.



Who this course is for:

  • Nature Major

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