How to attract hummingbirds to your garden

 The best flowers to attract hummingbirds 



Feeding hummingbirds is a very rewarding process. Sure, a feeder or two will do the trick, but you can impress the hummers by growing flowers with a narrow funnel shape full of honey and color (especially red). Plant as many of these hummingbird favorites as you can, and you will not only give these little birds a flower buffet but fill your yard with beautiful flowers.


1 Bee Balm


The perennial that blooms this summer is sure to make a bold statement in your landscape. Although red is the most common color for bee ointment, you can also find varieties with pink, purple, and white flowers; All of these are good for attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators.


2 Garden phlox



Hummingbirds will appreciate garden phlox just like you. This ancient perennial fruit produces pink, red, lavender, or white flowers with a pleasant aroma in summer. The flowers that attract the hummingbirds grow upright in clusters and are especially beautiful on the mixed border


3 Lupines


A Cottage Garden Classic, Lupins offer colorful flowers in early and mid-summer, and you can enjoy them because of their beautiful hand-shaped foliage even when they are not in bloom. Lupines are sensitive to heat, so look for hybrids that are grown specifically to withstand the summer heat.

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4 Red-hot Poker


This hummingbird favorite has tall spikes of crimson, yellow, white, and orange tubular flowers and fountain-like clusters of rough, grassy-gray-green leaves. Red-hot poker can be impressive in small groups behind a perennial border or even as a specimen plant. Clip spent flowers to encourage re-blooming.


5  Hollyhocks



This classic twenty-year-old (usually 2-year-old, flowering second) that attracts hummingbirds is famous for its tall spikes of single or double flowers. Holyhawks bloom in a variety of colors from purple-black to red, yellow, pink, or white. The flowering stems of this cottage garden plant are covered with buds up to their stems, which gradually bloom from the base of the stems.


6 Columbine


Start the Hummingbird season with the wild red and yellow flowers of Columbine. This easy-growing perennial plant is native to many rocky lands and forests of North America and prefers afternoon shade when grown in hot and humid summers. The distinctive flowers of the wild columbine hang down from a long stalk and have rounded tips at the ends of the petals.

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7 Coralbells


Nearly perfect perennial-border plants, coral beads hanging on attractive green mounds, and long-short stems that rise above the leaves with red, pink, white, or green flowers. Coral beads are easy to grow as long as they are very moist and will bloom if they die often.


8 Cardinal



It is harder to find a bright red color for the garden than a cardinal flower. This perennial that blooms in late summer is native to North America and produces vibrant crimson tubular flower spikes that are inevitable for hummingbirds. Cardinal flower enjoys moist soil conditions, making them a good choice for swamps.


9 Foxgloves


Another staple food of cottage gardens, the two-year-old fox gloves bear the tall spikes of pink, purple, white, yellow, or tubular flowers in summer. Although some fox gloves are perennial fruits, the most common varieties are twenty years old, meaning they only grow stalks in the first year they grow from seed, and the next year, they bloom the seeds to start rotating again.


10 Landana


A favorite of butterflies and hummingbirds, Lantana offers colorful red, yellow, orange, pink, lavender, or white flowers. These heat-loving, drought-tolerant plants will fit well in sunny locations in your garden. The bright flowers of the lantana make an excellent contrast with its darker leaves, and the color gradually darkens over time.


11 Pencemen


Also known as the bearded tongue, the pollen that appears indistinctly in the throat of every flower is a benign native plant that thrives in hot, dry, and poor, rocky soils. Its tubular flowers can be red, pink, purple, orange, yellow, or white.


12 Salvia


Light a fire in any bed with these bright red annuals. You can also find annual salvia varieties in cream, purple, and salmon. Each type of flower for hummingbirds is easy to grow and can withstand drought. For extra pollination, add a DIY hummingbird feeder to your garden.

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