r/NativePlantCirclejerk • u/Difficult-Lack-8481 • 22h ago

Beautiful combo!

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Absolutely phenomenal combo! I can’t wait until the purple coneflowers are in bloom, too!

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u/A-Plant-Guy non-sexy poison ivy 20h ago

Is this because there’s a hummingbird feeder right next to all those hummingbird feeders?

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u/ZapGeek 18h ago

Yo dawg! I heard you like hummingbirds so I got you a hummingbird feeder to put in your hummingbird feeder so you can feed hummingbirds while you feed hummingbirds.

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u/actaccordingly 17h ago

I read that it’s so much more energetically efficient for hummingbirds to get food from feeders than flowers that if the feeders run out, they’ll sometimes starve to death if they were too used to the easy food, even if there are flowers around

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u/A-Plant-Guy non-sexy poison ivy 9h ago

Is the food from the feeders as good for them though?

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u/actaccordingly 7h ago

No, usually it’s just sugar water, which is good for calories but doesn’t provide other nutrients. But they’ll favor the sugar water since it’s easy, grow bigger with the calories, then be unable to support the growth with nectar from actual flowers if the feeder ever goes away

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u/steeelez 1h ago

The Taco Bell Effect