Plants to Attract Hummingbirds
Plants to Attract Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds favor red, scentless, nectar-laden, tubular flowers, but they like pink and orange blossoms, too. These flowers are sure to lure hummingbirds to your garden.
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Aquilegia spp.
(columbines)
Dicentra spp. (bleeding hearts)
Pulmonaria spp. (lungworts)
SUMMER
Alcea rosea (hollyhock)
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)
Dianthus barbatus (sweet William)
Digitalis spp. (foxgloves)
Heuchera spp. (coralbells)
Kniphofia uvaria (red-hot poker, torchlily)
Mimulus guttatus (common monkeyflower)
Monarda didyma (bee-balm, oswego tea)
Penstemon spp. (beard-tongues)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Hosta spp. and hybrids (hosta)
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)
ANNUALS
Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon)
Consolida ambigua (rocket larkspur)
Fuchsia x hybrida (fuchsia)
Ipomoea purpurea (morning glory)
Lantana Spp. (lantanas)
Lobelia erinus (edging lobelia)
Mirabilis jalapa (four-o'clock)
Nicotiana Spp. (flowering tobacco)
Pelargonium peltatum (ivy geranium)
Pelargonium x hortorum (zonal geranium)
Petunia x hybrida (petunia)
Phlox drummondii (annual phlox)
Salvia splendens (red salvia, scarlet sage)
BULBS
SPRING
Canna x generalis (canna lily)
Gladiolus x hortulanus (gladiolus)
SUMMER
Canna x generalis (canna lily)
Dahlia x pinnata (dahlia)
