Please understand that this is not an exhaustive list of plants for hummingbird gardens but just the most common plants.
What Do Hummingbirds Really Eat?
Hummingbirds get the majority of their food from insects such as aphids so putting up plants like honeysuckle that attract aphids will attract the birds for both the flower shape and the insect food the plant sustains.
We used to get hummingbirds into our greenhouses every spring.
They would arrive in the north and a flowering greenhouse was too good an opportunity for them. They would buzz in and out tremendously amusing us all.
You could always tell the rookies. They would get inside and not know how to go back out the doors or vents. They would try to fly up and out through the plastic, an effort that thankfully never worked.
After several minutes of buzzing and beating themselves up against the plastic, they would perch on a cross wire or hanging basket and survey the place. More than once, they’d land on a shoulder or a hand.
Sooner or later they would see a door or somebody going out the door and they’d figure it out. Zooom and away they’d go.
The experienced birds used the vents- in and out without at any time of day
If you have a humminbird feeder – do not add red dye to the sugar-water mix. The birds don’t need it to find the feeder and it does them no good.
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In any case, use these plants as backbone plants for your hummingbird gardens:
Perennial Plant List:
- Agastache
- Alcea
- Aquilegia
- Buddleia
- Dahlia
- Delphinium
- Digitalis
- Heuchera
- Kniphofia
- Lilium
- Lobelia
- Lonicera
- Lupinus
- Mimulus
- Monarda
- Penstemon
- Phlox
- Phygelius
- Salvia
- Sidalcea
- Leonotis
- Leycesteria
- Meehania
- Spigelia
- Weigela
- Zauschneria
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