Plant Select and hummingbirds

Hummingbird feeding on Salvia darcyi in Plant Select Garden

Who isn’t entranced by hummingbirds? This picture
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Hummingbird perching in the Gardens

Check out this hummingbird, spotted almost directly overhead in the Lilac Garden at Denver Botanic Gardens. Normally, I’m more interested in the horticultural and botanic than I am in the animals I might happen to see in Denver.  But this bird was twittering away, paused to sit for just a moment on the branch, then leapt from its perch into the air and swooped and dived several times before dashing across the Gardens. I was lucky to enough to share the experience with both adults and children. (Doesn’t it seem like the Gardens is be a great place for children and families in the summer? Look here or read Lisa’s blog.)  It was neat enough to see a hummingbird, to watch it perching with an audience as entranced as we were was divine!

Aghast! A key! …….

Is it agaSTASHee? Aga-stach-ay?

Sunset Hyssop (Agastache rupestris)

is it Aghasta(phlegm)ee, how the heck do we pronounce the darned thing? Even ten years ago most of us would not have known an Agastache from a….from a….
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