LANDSCAPING FOR HUMMINGBIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES Learn how to choose plants that enhance the natural environment The first annual gardener’s lecture series called the Garden Wise Con ference will feature annual flow ers, native plant choices and de sign; selective pruning and pest free plants on Saturday, April 12. at Penn State York Campus, York, from 8;30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cost for the Garden Wise conference is $35. Call Penn State Cooperative Extension at (717) 840-7408. Are you looking for easy-care and unusual annuals that attract butterflies and birds? Marilyn Daly, garden writer, researcher and teacher at Longwood Gardens will present ways to attract butter flies and birds using unusual an nual and biennial flowers. One of the best known is butter fly weed. Butterfly weed, a bien nial, grows as a wildflowcr and at tracts both hummingbirds and but terflies. Butterfly weed produces a 3-foot high flower spike of brilli ant orange flower clusters. Butter fly weed blooms in mid to late summer and prefers dry or moist soils. Pennsylvania has only one hummingbird species to enjoy, the ruby-throated hummingbird. They are named for their crimson, iri • Agricultural • Commercial • Residential Chain Link Fence (5’ High - SCS Spproved) • Retaining Walls • Bunker Silos • Manure Storage, Etc. T|f Lml >* > -> «■ % descent throat feathers. Hum mingbirds are particularly well adapted for sipping nectar from flowers; They have long, tubular or brush-tipped tongues and can fly forward, backward, to the left and right, hover, and propel them selves upside down. Ruby throated hummingbirds supple ment a diet of flower nectar with insects, spiders, and t ree sap from woodpecker drilling. Ruby-throated hummingbirds ate found in deciduous woodlands as well as urban backyards often near water. Their nests are exqui site; comprised of bud scales and lichens, bound with spider’s silk. Hummingbirds can be lured to your yard with a hummingbird feeder that dispense sugar water from red plastic “flowers.” Feed ers should be filled with a boiled solution of 4 parts of water to 1 part white sugar. It is unnecessary to add red dye to the sugar water. Hummers can also be attracted to a garden planted with nectar producing red, orange, or pink tubular-shaped blossoms such as cardinal flower(Lobelia cardin alis). Butterflies feed from many of the same flowers as humming birds, but find milkweeds (asciepias spp.) and dogbanes (apocynum spp.) particularly at- Partial In-Ground Tank Featuring Commercial ENCEWORK FORYOU-ESTABIiII 430 Concrete Ave., Leola, 717-656-2016 INC. tractive. Butterflies that visit Pennsylvania gardens include the tiger swallowtail, monarch, black swallowtail, and viceroy. An at tractive moth that is active by day is the hummingbird moth so named because of its humming bird-like flight. To landscape your yard for hummingbirds and butterflies, plant flowers in large clumps to make conspicuous displays. Select a variety of plants so that flower ing is continuous from May through August A good garden design is one with layered vegeta tion; large shrubs in back with flowers in front, and a fence or ar bor planted with flowering vines. Plants that attract humming birds include cardinal flower, bee balm, columbine, bleeding heart, day lily, Turk’s cap lily, holly hock, rose of sharon, coralberry, weigela, trumpet honeysuckle, trumpet creeper and tulip poplar. Plants that attract both hum mingbirds and butterflies include butterfly weed, butterfly bush, im patiens, phlox and bergamot. Plants that butterflies prefer in clude: cosmos, heliotrope, mari gold, zinnia, dogbane, queen anne’s lace, asters, goldennrod and Joe’s pye-weed. Any questions regarding the above article can be addressed to Tom Becker, Penn State Coopera tive Extension at (717) 840-7408. ID SINCE 1079! Sizes And . . Layout* Need The Wood Mizer’s * Telephone Number? DENVER (Lancaster Co.) Several weeks ago, a feature story on Eugene and Anna Martin who operate a portable mill called a Wood Mizer appeared in this pap Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser Long April Ist was the date on which people settled their debts. They also went to the courthouse to record deeds and take care of business in Lancaster. My mother often talked about the scarcity of paper to write on and she tore un used pages out of old record books to use for a diary. Even in her old age, she cut out scraps of white paper from newspaeprs to use for lists. There is an expression that goes something like this, “I’ll write that in the chimney.” This I never un derstood until one day I saw Ger man words and some numbers written on the white plaster in the attic around our 1813 farmhouse chimney. We lived in my Weidler ances tors’ brick house for many years. And, I’m told that they were big money lenders. 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Many have requested the phone number for the Martin’s, which is listed as Martin’s Sawing Service (717) 733-9136. “in the chimney.” Was this done for lack of paper or just for pri- vacy? Another memory of April Ist is the tricks that we played on fellow workers in an office. When we an swered the telephone on April Ist, sometimes we gave the wrong in formation. We had the insurance agents phone a beauty parlor or even the Lancaster County jail. Of course, no one from there had called them and so we had a laugh at their expense. One day a silver spoon from a restaurant was found in a man’s jacket pocket after he returned to his office. Then he was accused of taking it even though he knew no thing about it Today we limit our selves to the old saying, “Your shoe is untied” so that we can say “April Fool” when they look at them.
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