A Belated Spring Fling Memory

I was so impressed by this at the time, and then I guess I got distracted by all the plants I bought...

While all the Flingers of Spring were wandering around the Natural Gardener on Saturday afternoon, I took a quick look around the Sun Perennials section.  It's one of my favorite sections, in part because I don't have all that much sun in my garden at home, but also because those are the flowers that seem to attract the most bees, butterflies, and birds.  As I was standing there, grazing among the potted salvia just sitting on tabletops, I noticed a hummingbird swoop in, take a sip of nectar, and swoop back out again, no more than three feet away.  That's not the sort of thing you're likely to see at a lot of nurseries, and it speaks to the environment that they work to preserve at the Natural Gardener.

I glanced around to see if any of the other Flingers were nearby, but I didn't see anyone, so I tucked the memory into the sieve-like recesses of my brain and continued on.