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Post by tina mallari on Mar 18, 2009 12:45:22 GMT
We decided to plant the same plant that is found at Hidden Valley in Laguna where all the sunbirds love to hang out. Ever since it started flowering, the sunbirds have started to come regularly and I couldn't be happier  These are all Olive-backed Sunbirds  40D + 400mm 5.6L ; 1/250 ; f/6.3 ; ISO 400 ; hand held  40D + 400mm 5.6L ; 1/500 ; f/8 ; ISO 400 ; hand held  40D + 400mm 5.6L ; 1/500 ; f/8 ; ISO 400 ; hand held |
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Post by mantarey on Mar 18, 2009 12:51:18 GMT
Wow very beautiful set Idol Tins. These could be the best Sunbird images I've ever seen. The exposure and sharpness is so amazing. |
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Post by Romy Ocon on Mar 18, 2009 12:54:14 GMT
Hehehe..... I need to plant some of those too, superb set Plain Idol!
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Post by tina mallari on Mar 18, 2009 13:17:58 GMT
Thanks a lot Rey and IDOL Romy.
How I wish we had purple throated sunbirds here in Alabang too just like in Hidden Valley ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Mark Itol on Mar 18, 2009 13:37:53 GMT
Amazing set plain idol! |
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Post by Ed Matuod on Mar 18, 2009 14:03:19 GMT
#3's the winner for me. All great captures though. Congratulations on your plant, Tina! It might work on hummingbirds too(just a guess). Name of the plant, please?
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Post by tina mallari on Mar 18, 2009 15:14:34 GMT
Thank you Mark and Ed. It's called chinese hat here in Manila. If you go to a nursery here, they know that plant right away when you mention the name. I'm sure hummingbirds will love this plant too since they like tubular types of plants. Here's one of the sunbirds sipping the nectar out of the tubular portion of the plant.  |
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Post by Teddy Regpala on Mar 18, 2009 16:53:46 GMT
Very nice OBS Tins.
#2 is acting like a hummer indeed.
When we had our backyard landscaped years ago, a butterfly bush was suggested to us. We decided not to go for it, as we're avoiding bees (my in-law got stung before).
I might get one soon, as the hummers likes the bush as well. And we need the bees to pollinate our fruit trees too (pears, peach, lemon, and persimmons, oh the avocados too when they start fruiting). The bees though love the lavanders.
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Post by tina mallari on Mar 19, 2009 0:35:56 GMT
Thanks Teddy.
From what I've been reading on the net before, red tubular plants or something close to the color red are what attracts them the most.
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Post by Romy Ocon on Mar 19, 2009 1:15:24 GMT
It's called chinese hat here in Manila. If you go to a nursery here, they know that plant right away when you mention the name. Hehehe.... I've asked my domestic boss to take a look at Plain Idol's photo of the plant so she can inquire at our neighborhood nursery. I told her the name of the plant is Cinese At (my boss is from Pampanga ;D), and to just mention it with the nursery folks and they should know. I intend to plant any available space in our backyard with this. I'm gonna convince my neighbors too to do the same by assuring them this plant is the latest "fortune or lucky plant" that's the rage in high society circles. Plain Idol, it's probably time to set up your outdoor studio - set up an improvised blind with a barbeque grill and choose a good natural-looking BG (some greeneries a good distance away would be fine). |
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Post by tina mallari on Mar 19, 2009 1:34:49 GMT
I told her the name of the plant is Cinese At (my boss is from Pampanga ;D) I'm gonna convince my neighbors too to do the same by assuring them this plant is the latest "fortune or lucky plant" that's the rage in high society circles. BwWwhahahAHahAHaHAHahahaha Romy !!!! LOL !!!! Plain Idol, it's probably time to set up your outdoor studio - set up an improvised blind with a barbeque grill and choose a good natural-looking BG (some greeneries a good distance away would be fine). Sighhhhh how I wish we had a biggggg garden so I can plant all the plants that the birds love. I wanttttt to win the lotto so we can buy the remaining 2 or is it 3 lots beside our house ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Romy Ocon on Mar 19, 2009 2:15:22 GMT
Seriously Plain Idol, do you think it will grow and thrive on big plant boxes? Thinking of making it a movable perch to suit the direction of sunlight and my choice of background. ;D
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Post by Sylvia Ramos on Mar 19, 2009 3:02:19 GMT
Tina, oh my goodness, great shots! I REALLY love the 3rd photo! I can't wait for my Chinese Hat plants to grow ...
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Post by Edu Lorenzo Jr on Mar 19, 2009 3:05:54 GMT
Very veeeeeeery nice set sir! Congratulations! Incredible! Having birds at the backyard is getting to be the norm na ba? Teddy's mocking bird, my Colasisi, that yellow wagtail.. this is great! Off to the nursery for me!  |
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Post by tina mallari on Mar 19, 2009 5:05:41 GMT
Seriously Plain Idol, do you think it will grow and thrive on big plant boxes? Thinking of making it a movable perch to suit the direction of sunlight and my choice of background. ;D According to Sylvia, it's not a vine daw but it grows something like a vine. On big plant boxes... hmmm you can try and then let me know Wish I had a nicer background for the plants. The plant has gone haywire because I told our helpers NEVER to cut off any of the branches but looks like I will have to cut off some soon. Our garden looks like an untended garden na. Sylvia: Thank you. I can't wait for your plants to grow too Edu: Thanks. Uhmmm pero girl po ako ;D |
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Post by Sylvia Ramos on Mar 19, 2009 5:16:25 GMT
Accdg to "A Pictorial Cyclopedia of Philippine Ornamental Plants" by Domingo Madulid, its a Holmskioldia sanginea. Local names are Chinese hat plant and cup and saucer plant; "shrub to small tree, with long, slender, spreading, almost drooping branches growing to 5m tall".
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Post by Romy Ocon on Mar 19, 2009 5:31:16 GMT
Accdg to "A Pictorial Cyclopedia of Philippine Ornamental Plants" by Domingo Madulid, its a Holmskioldia sanginea. Local names are Chinese hat plant and cup and saucer plant; "shrub to small tree, with long, slender, spreading, almost drooping branches growing to 5m tall". Hehe.... 5 meters tall?..... I think it's a better idea for the birdnut and his shooting gear to move for a better vantage point, rather than relocating a 5-meter tall plant, my domestic boss will have a hard time carrying that. Plant box idea now officially abandoned. ;D |
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Post by tina mallari on Mar 19, 2009 5:45:41 GMT
The ones at hidden valley and canyon woods are trimmed regularly and it's definitely not 5 meters tall and it's been there for the longest time. Kaya I said na you can try and then let me know - HehHEehHEhe
Sylvs, nice to plant flowering plants at narra park noh. They still have a lot of space beside the Mother of Perpetual Help grotto ;D
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Post by Ronnie Dominguez on Mar 19, 2009 6:03:29 GMT
Very excellent pictures of OBS. I think I have a photo of that plant taken in Bataan. Its built is something like bounganvilla and have so many propusion of blooms with each drooping branch. In my photo the plant is about 1.3 meters in height and the width/spread is about 3 meters. Seem that you can opt to have many small potted plants (being like bounganvilla) in an elevated place like in a balcony or roof or a make shift platform. Then he he he, you can move each potted plant perhaps tying one or two to a branch in a tree during special season? |
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Post by Farmer Nestor on Mar 19, 2009 9:32:15 GMT
Beautiful sets of OBS photo Plain Idol! Gorgeous  |
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