As the Garden Grows

What's blooming today?


You are here: Home / Archives for window

My hummingbird feeders paid off!

by

Guess what!

I just about had a heart attack on Sunday. I was standing in the kitchen talking to my husband and I turned my head to look out the window at the garden and some fluttering by the hummingbird feeder caught my eye.

I realized that I was seeing the first hummingbird of the season!

I had just taken a Tylenol because I had an awful migraine on Sunday (in fact I still have a headache!). In fact I’m not even sure that I’d finished swallowing the pill when I saw the hummingbird. I was so surprised all I could do was point out the window and go “Oh” “oh” “oh”.

I scared my husband. He thought something was wrong with me so he wasn’t even looking out the window where I was pointing. I either finally spit out the word hummingbird or he turned his head enough to see the bird examining the feeder.

We’ve only had one hummingbird that we actually saw before and that was three years ago! We’ve since purchased and extra hummingbird feeder and I guess it paid off.

So we were both staring out the window amazed that a little colorful hummingbird had bestowed a visit upon us when my husband decided to try to get the camera. I wanted to take photos, but overall I was more interested in watching the bird rather than running to get the camera and losing those precious seconds of hummingbird sightseeing.

He did manage to get my new SLR digital camera for me before the bird flew away. Luckily it takes several photos in a row so I managed to take about 20 pictures before it took off.

While the hummingbird was visiting it hovered around the bird feeder. I was surprised that it tried to get at the top of the clear glass bird feeder even after it had found the feeding stations in the bottom. It also visited the purple petunias that were nearby, two or three of the white phlox plants, the Rose of Sharon, and I think it also hovered near the bee balm. It even rested on the clothes line three times. We also have another hummingbird feeder near the back of the yard beside the huge rose bush William Baffin. The hummingbird visited that feeder and possibly the purple clematis Jackmani beside it.

As I said I do have photos. I just haven’t uploaded them to the computer yet. I’ll post some of the better photos soon.

I’m going to be looking out my kitchen window a lot more often now that I know we have hummingbird that’s discovered our feeders!






Buy new blinds and get your money back with innovative new program

by

How would you like to be able to Shop for Free Window Blinds? Certainly if you need blinds for you windows I’ll bet that you’d appreciate getting them free.

This is a very interesting idea and I hope that more companies adopt this patent-pending method of shopping.

The idea behind this is that you’d visit Freeblinds.com and shop for window blinds just like you would at any other online store. The difference is that once you get to the check out and pay for the blinds that you’ve just ordered you’ll be given a unique code, lets call it a referral code. All you have to do at that point is share your referral code with others. You’ll then receive 20% of their product purchase.

So, just for the sake of simplicity, if the blinds you purchase are $100 and five of the people you give your referral code also buy blinds worth $100 you’ll get $20 from each of their purchases and in no time the new blinds hanging in your living room or bedroom will end up being absolutely free.

If you have friends, family or co-workers who need new blinds it should be easy enough to pass on your referral code. Even easier if you have a blog or website as you can embed a banner in your web site or myspace page. Freeblinds.com makes it easy to hand out your referral code to as you can print out cards with your unique code on it once you are in the checkout area. You can also opt to enter the names and email of friends and family while in the checkout area and Freeblinds.com will send them an email with your referral code.

You will keep receiving 20% of the purchase price from all of the people who use your referral code until 100% of your purchase is has been returned.

I don’t need new blinds right now so I’ll bookmark the site and likely use it in the future. They do have a wide selection of blinds, shades, and motorized shades and blinds to choose from as well as installation instructions and other information about blinds and shades.

If you need new blinds visit the site. You can’t lose since you’re sure to eventually get your money back.

A little rose named Sunsprite

by

Sunsprite Rose

Sunsprite. What an aptly named rose.

This gem of a rose is located in the back flower bed of my garden.

Considering that this rose is not all that tall – perhaps 3 feet at it’s tallest – I really should have planted it in a more prominent position so that I could enjoy it’s lovely flowers more often.

When this rose blooms I can see it’s flowers from my kitchen window so there’s no worry that it’s lost among other plants in my garden.

Like many of my other roses the blooms of summer are a slightly different color than it’s spring blooms. This rose has a medium yellow bloom in the spring but as you can see in the heat of summer it’s much paler with white edges on the outer petals.

Do you grow Sunsprite?

Meta