Almost everyone is thrilled when hummingbirds visit their garden. It is really a matter of picking out the right flowers such as the new Ballistic, a variety of Cuphea ignea. The cuphea (KEW-fee-ah) ...

The bat-faced cuphea is a flowering shrub I found during a fall plant sale event at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy. It made me laugh and charmed me at the same time.

If you are thrilled when a hummingbird comes to your feeder, then you will be ecstatic when they come to the plants you have placed in the landscape. Though much of the country has the first cold ...