Hummingbird Gardening in the Upper Midwest
NEW Our thanks to everyone who attended our programs at the 2025 PBS Wisconsin Garden & Green Living Expo. Links to the slides and handouts are as follows:
Please continue to watch this website for dates of the 2025 garden tours. We will place the dates on our website by late spring.
Our thanks to everyone who attended the 2024 garden tours. A special thanks to:
Bob Ross from the Middleton, WI Wild Birds Unlimited for donating items for the door prize drawing.
Janice Selfridge and Jim Stewart for donating hummingbird note cards
Larry and Emily Scheunemann for teaching their class on hummingbirds
Mickey O'Connor and Katie for attempting to band hummingbirds and teaching the public about this important scientific endeavor.
We gave an abbreviated version of our "Gardening for Hummingbirds" presentation as part of a zoom webinar for the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance. You can watch the presentation on youtube:
Important announcement
Our favorite mail order nursery for salvias was Flowers by the Sea. The owners of Flowers by the Sea, Kermit and Vicki Carter, are retiring. Our hearty congratulations to Kermit and Vicki for their years of providing such high quality plants. We wish them well in retirement.
There are multiple web pages on our site that reference obtaining salvias from Flowers by the Sea. For some of these salvias, FBTS was the only source for the plant. Over the winter of 2023-2024, we will be updating our website to reflect the closure of FBTS and if there are alternate sources for the salvias.
Below is a video of a hummingbird being banded during the September 14, 2016 garden tour:
