Hummingbirds are one of the great delights of spring of our coast.
Numerous feeding devices have been designed to attract these flying jewels. For about the same amount of money you can buy a red-flowering or blood currant bush for your garden, and enjoy not only the birds, but the early flowers too. Several brownish stems rise from the base and stand erect or lean among other stems in thickets. Clusters of leaves occur on spur branches spaced along the stems. Each greyish green leaf looks like a small, rounded maple leaf.