Although humming bird feeders are great for attracting them, adding a few of their favourite flashy blooming plants gives them more reason to stay.
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Hummingbirds enjoy flower nectar. With a feeder and plants, you can watch them buzz from flower to feeder to flower. The double combination of plants and a feeder or two will keep them around since they can visit thousands of flowers in a day!
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Can it help your garden and flowerbeds? Hummingbirds can pollinate thousands of flowers daily. That means more flowers, vegetables, and time to watch the fascinating birds fly!
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Growing hummingbird-friendly plants is the best way to attract them to your yard. Annuals and perennials can attract them to outdoor spaces.
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Consider planting bushes and shrubs around your property in addition to flowers. These safeguard hummingbirds. They provide hummingbirds with a place to rest and escape danger.
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Choose bright-colored, tubular flowers. Hummingbirds prefer red and orange flowers. Purple, white, and pink blooms also attract them. These plants are their favourites.
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This hardy North American perennial thrives in rich, moist soil. It has tall, spiky red, pink, purple, or white blooms. Another benefit of bee balm is deer resistance. This attractive perennial thrives in zones 3–9.
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Herbaceous perennial lupines improve soil and attract hummingbirds. Lupines can also improve growth. As peas, they fix nitrogen in the soil, making it easier for other plants to bloom.
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They have long purple and blue blooms with many tiny petals that hummingbirds love. Lupines thrive in zones 4-8. Their soil must be loose and draining. Lupines grow one to four feet tall.
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Phlox is a perennial that forms a blanket and grows tall with star-shaped blooms. Their tiny red, pink, purple, blue, and white flowers attract many pollinators, including hummingbirds.