Happy to hear that your Hummers returned! We too have Hummers, Orioles and Rose Breasted Grosbeaks, but have not seen the Scarlet Tanagers or the Indigo Buntings. Like you we are still waiting for them, confident they will surprise you and us any day now.

texasfern, If you are having a problem with actual honeybees and not yellow jackets or other wasps, they are looking for moisture and nectar that is becoming harder for them to find because of the hot and dry weather you all are having. A friend in Calif. solved her honeybee problem by providing a large 'nectar bowl' just for them away from the feeders. She used a chick feeder/waterer from a feed store but any large shallow container would work. just fill the shallow container with sugar water and place it away from your feeders. The honey bees will get the nectar and water they need and leave the feeders alone. I used this method last year when we had a hot dry season and it does work. You may have to relocate your hummer feeder also until the bees find 'their' feeder. Penny

it probably knows every inch of your yard the feeder is just something new, give it some time. just change the sugar water every few days

Hmmm. You probably do know that each hosta bloom lasts only one day, just like a daylily? So to get a long blooming season, pick the varieties known to produce lots of blooms per scape, or lots of scapes - or both. And you can certainly stretch your hosta blooms through the entire growing season by planting varieties known to bloom at different times. So, for example, the early bloomers include the sieboldiana hybrids - Elegans, Bressingham Blue, Blue Mammoth, etc...; also Blue Angel, Love Pat, Abba Dabba Do. Those also produce huge numbers of seed with no effort whatsoever. Mid-season, hm, Permanent Wave is fantastic in my garden; also Revolution, Jade Cascade, and many of the smaller varieties, like Lemon Lime and Blond Elf. And Sum & Substance, and probably many, many others. Then you have the many fragrant varieties plus the likes of Stiletto, Lancifolia, and the tardianas such as Halcyon, June and all of their relatives; Lakeside Looking Glass, which is generally disliked for its susceptibility to bugs, produces a very lovely and unusual nice flower show. And, finally, towards the very end of the season, the red-legged, red-petiole ones, and in my garden Purple Dwarf and Raspberry Sorbet make a real showing, followed by One Man's Treasure and Red October. I hear Rhapsody in Blue is also fantastic with profuse late flowers. This is a very sketchy line of thinking, and of course the precise time of blooming will vary according to the plant's location in a garden - shadier/sunnier, wetter/drier, all make a difference in growth pattern. Good luck! Digs.