Just made another hummingbird feeder

I just finished making a new hummingbird feeder. It's made from an old bottle I found out in the Arizona desert. I have wrapped this old metal bed spring around the old bottle and use it to hang the hummingbird feeder. There is a rubber cork that plugs the bottle opening which has copper tubing that ends at a copper flower tip.

The hummingbirds really love these feeders. I have over 13 hummingbird feeders in the yard and garden and most of them are home made like this one...I should think about selling some!

Remember not to add any red  food coloring to your hummingbird feeder juice! The red coloring is really bad for the hummingbirds, plus the hummingbirds will find your feeder in time anyway. I like to add in a few drops of orange extract for added flavoring.

Cute hummingbird having a drink of nectar and resting in our Arizona raised veggie garden

Our friendly hummingbird stopping by to hang out for a while

This is our friendly hummingbird who loves to hang around us while we work in the yard and garden. I hope to have this hummingbird feeding from my hand very soon.

Video of the things in our garden

Only a few seconds out of the day and look what we see! If you look real close you will see the hummingbird shadow glance the top of the pepper and tomatoes. Things we are growing in our Arizona raised garden bed are tomatoes, jalapeno and bell peppers, corn, squash, lettuce, among herbs like basil, cilantro, cat nip and others.

Hummingbrid landing on lisbon lemon tree

Here is one of our hummingbird friends the other day in our garden. This hummingbird loves to hang out in our lisbon lemon tree all day long!

Here you can see this hummingbird make a gentle landing atop this lisbon lemon tree. The cape honey suckle plants are some of these hummingbords other favorites.

Added plants to the water irrigation pipes

Wanted to show you some plants I planted in the water irrigation pipes. These are the water irrigation pipes I added drip line inside a week ago or so. You can see how I installed the drip line in an earlier post in this garden blog.

Anyway, here are the images:

This great looking plant is the "Beaucarnea recurvata", but is also known as a pony tail palm, elephant foot and/or bottle palm. It's pretty tolerant of most conditions and will handle our Arizona extreme heat well I'm told. I did add a small amount of potting soil to the top, but it likes native soil just as well.

For the other water pipe in our yard I went with a great looking flowering plant that will attract hummingbirds. It should fill in quite fast and soften the hard concrete look of the water pipe and the wall. I can't think of the name right now for some reason.

In this decorative pot I planted two small plants called "crown of thorns". They have a great looking smaller white or pink flower. They have a lot of thorns, which is why I planted them in the middle of this mound; inside a pot. I added a few stones called Mexican beach pebble around them for a more unique look.

A friendly hummingbird takes a break

Noticed this hummingbird hanging out on top of our tomato support. The grape vines are giving this area much needed shade and a little cooler temps.

Don't forget about the hummingbirds!!!

Can't forget about those beautiful hummingbirds that  need a nice sugary drink right now more than ever.

With the temps hitting 115 and above, it's a nice thing to add a hummingbird feeder to your yard or garden. In our yard we must have about 10 hummingbird feeders. Most of are feeders are feeders we have made ourselves, (and will be for sale sometime in the near future!), that are old bottles we have found in the middle of the Arizona desert in our camping and off road adventures.

These feeders seem to attract so many hummingbirds that you'll always keep them filled as to not dissapoint all the hummingbirds coming to your yard :) Plus they eat some bugs and insects that you don't want in your garden!

By the way, please remember NOT to add any red food coloring to your hummingbird juice! The dye is very harmful to these awesome birds. Trust me, the hummingbirds will find our feeder even if it's not red :)

I like to add a few drops of orange extract for a little flavor kick. It seems to be a hit!