What flowers do your Hummingbirds Like? 13 flowers commonly used for attracting hummingbirds 1. Bee Balm 2. Red Columbine 3. Delphinum 4. Hollyhock 5. Butterfly bush 6. Catawba Rhodendron 7. Rose of Sharon 8. Trumpet vine 9. Trumpet Honeysuckle 10.Cardinal vine 11.Fuchsia Swing Hangars 12.Silk Tree (Mimosa) 13.Mexican Sage bush What's in your Hummingbird garden? BJ
They like the red and Silverado Sage, petunias, Nicotiana, and Butterfly Bush. Hungry little buggers. Gardengater
Have you tried a Fuchsia Hanging Basket for Hummingbirds? Have you tried a Fuchsia hanging basket to attract Hummingbirds? Use a moss hanging basket and you may like trying these flowers. Ivy Geranium, Fuchsia, Trailing Lobelia, Pink Sand Verbena, and Lotus. This is a super nice idea for my sun/shade front porch. It will like daily watering...and more if needed. Liquid fertilizer once a week,and pinching off faded or dying blossoms regularly. This year we have wave petunias, but will have the Fuchsia hanging baskets next year. BJ
Here they love Passion Vine flowers Mexican Petunia Rose of Sharon Hibiscus Carolina Jasmine Cannas Clomes Zennias Datura Burgmansia
We have almost 100 hummers and alot of them are going nuts over the Cleome. I make a gallon and a half of sugar water for them a day.
You all are so lucky!!! We have only seen 2 different Hummingbirds here. Wish you could ship me some of yours. LOL. BJ
Why feed a Hummingbird?!? Why feed a hummingbird?!? These tiny birds have to feed every 15 minutes or risk starvation. They consume up to 2X their body weight in nectar daily or up to 50% in sugar from flowers and from our feeders. They also need protein from eating insects. So, why not put out a mesh bag (like onions come in from the store) with some fruit in it to attract insects for them? I just came in from cutting seeds (I hope) off of wild blue Bachelor Buttons on my front porch. While working there on a round glass table, my husband said, "Look...there, what's flying around you." I looked up and there was a beautiful Hummingbird, dark with dark grey belly, hoovering over the table, so close, I could have touched him. He went back twice to get a drink from our feeder, and then, hoovered over the middle of the table again. I have an artificial red geranium in basket sitting there but he seemed to be more interested in the flowers I was cutting seeds from. I'm wondering if he could pick up the scent of the geen stems I was cutting on. However, I have heard they cannot smell. This was a first for me! Lovely surprise!!! Do you think Hummingbirds can smell the flowers? BJ
Geraniums, Bee Balm, Salvia, Fushia, Canna's, Penstemon, Agastache, but they really go crazy in the spring when the Lilac's bloom. That is usually when I first see them.
One that wasn't listed is the cigar plant..I can't find the real name right now but they use it a lot here. This one looks a lot like the candy corn but that one has yellow on it..Sherry
Hummingbirds around here, if there are any, apparently like someone else's yard. I have seen only one in my yard in the 21 years we have lived here. Sherry, your cigar plant is Cuphea ignea
My hummies like the bee balm best, but they also like hosta flowers, weigela, dragonflowers, and fuschia.
I grow eight different varieties of cuphea for them. They are crazy for it and they bloom abundantly. Regular common torenia is a must have and I have a lot of the hybrid hanging torenias on my patio. Of course I have lots of salvias and Buddleias too. It's easier to grow flowers than make sugar water I think. 8)
WOW!!! Y'all have the very best ideas for pleasing our little hummers. Makes it hard for me to decide what to grow in my yard! It's wonderful to find so many interested people. You're a great group. Betty (BJ)
