My hummingbird feeder hangs in the garden on one of those wrought iron crook poles. I thought it would be nice to decorate it a little, so I planted a heavenly blue morning glory at the bottom of the pole. This past weekend the vine got to the top of the crook. The hummers hadn’t been paying attention to it at all. But, on Sunday, I noticed they were boycotting the feeder. I could see a couple of them sitting on a dead branch in the pine tree, just this side of the garden. One or the other would occasionally take off and fly a reconnaissance flight over the pole. First I thought a cat might be around, but after several hours, I figured out that it was just the morning glory leaves flapping in the wind that was bothering them.

So, in the middle of fixing supper, I took my trowel out to the garden and carefully unwound the heavenly blue plant from the pole and moved it over to the garden stand with the 10 cent vines.

With in a few minutes, the hummingbirds were at the feeder. I am surprised they were afraid of a plant. I have noticed them around the garden stand morning glories lots of times. By the way, these two colors are the only ones showing up from the 10 cent pack. There was supposed to be a dark pink in the mix, but so far, only various shades of these colors.