A TOP TEN NATIVE TREE FOR ATTRACTING HUMMINGBIRDS, RIGHT HERE ON MAIN STREET AT THE SARGENT HOUSE MUSEUM

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The snowy white blossoms of one of North America’s most beautiful native trees, the Catalpa, is in full bloom at the Sargent House Museum. Beautiful for its orchid-like flowers, dangling bean pods, and ginormous heart-shaped leaves, hummingbirds also love to drink nectar from the blossoms

 

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

2 thoughts on “A TOP TEN NATIVE TREE FOR ATTRACTING HUMMINGBIRDS, RIGHT HERE ON MAIN STREET AT THE SARGENT HOUSE MUSEUM”

  2. This is quite a coincidence. Last night I passed a tree while walking home from the Blvd on Centennial. I was struck by a very strong scent of a blossoming tree and took the tip of a branch with the sweet smelling flowers. The leaves look very much like the catalpa, but the flowers look smaller and more delicate (almost feathery).
    Would that be a different type of catalpa? I couldn’t match the flower online.

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