There are many flowering plants that will attract hummingbirds to your garden. Most of these plants are tubular shaped and red. A successful hummingbird garden should provide nectar from May through the first frost. There is a great temptation to plant lots of bee balm or cardinal flower, which seem to be two of their favorite plants. But nectar would only be available for just a short time in the hummingbird's life. You should always select a variety of flowering plants with overlapping blooming periods, and mixes of perennials and annuals. Hummingbirds should feed about 3-5 times per hour and your hummingbirds may also become dependent on your flower garden for it's main food source, but there may be times when there are no blossoms and they cannot get nectar. It is a good idea to have hummingbird feeders hung about thirty feet in your garden. The hummingbird's favorite color for a feeder seems to be bright red. It attracts the birds from a distance. Never fill your feeders with anything but sugar-water mix of 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. Do not use food coloring of any kind, and you should never use honey. (Honey can develop a fungus which can be fatal to hummingbirds)
Remember to always keep your feeders clean and filled with food!

What is a hummingbird garden without the added beauty of butterflies? Plants that you might choose to attract and lure hummingbirds will also attract butterflies too. Butterflies don't need anything too over the top, fancy or expensive. Just provide a large, open, sun-filled area; some flowers, shelter; puddles; and rocks. Leaving part of your yard for native flowering plants and for weeds like dandelion, nettle, and milkweed should also help bring in a good amount of butterflies with many varieties. It's best to avoid using any peticides at all. Providing water adds another beauty into your yard to lure the hummingbirds and butterflies. Garden sprinklers draw in hummingbirds and mud puddles attract butterflies. Misters and drips are a more permanent and better solution than a garden sprinkler, they are easy to set up. Hummingbirds find misters irresistible!

FLOWERS: PERENNIALS & ANNUALS

Common Name Aster, New England Aster, "Alma Potsche" Anise Hyssop Bee Balm/Monarda Bee Balm Wild Bergamot Boneset Butterfly Weed Cardinal Flower Columbine, Wild Coral-bells Foxglove Fuchsia Globe Amaranth Goldenrod, Seaside Heliotrope Jewelweed/Touch-Me-Not Joe-pye-weed Lantana Lantana, Weeping Mexican Sunflower Milkweeds: Butterfly Weed Common Milkweed Scarlet Milkweed Swamp Milkweed Swamp Milkweed " Ice Palace Mistflower/Hardy Ageratum Mountain Mint Pentas Purple Coneflower Sage, Pineapple Sage, Scarlet Sedum Verbena Zinnia

Botanical Name Aster novae-angliae Aster novae-angliae var. Alma P. Agastache foeniculum   Monarda didyma Monarda fistulosa Eupatorium perfoliatum Asclepias tuberosa Lobelia cardinalis Aquilegia canadensis Heuchera spp. Digitalis spp. Fuchsia spp. Gomphrena globosa Solidago sempervirens Heliotropium arborescens Impatiens capensis Eupatorium purpureum Lantana camara Lantana montevidensis Tithonia rotundifolia   Asclepias tuberosa Asclepias syriaca Asclepias currassavica Asclepias incarnata   Eupatorium coelestinum Pycnanthemum muticum Pentas lanceolata Euchinea purpurea Salvia elegans Salvia splendens Sedum spectabile Verbena bonariensis Zinnia elegans

FLOWERING VINES

Common Name Japanese Honeysuckle** Trumpet Creeper or Vine Trumpet Honeysuckle

Botanical Name Lonicera japonica Campsis radicans Lonicera sempervirens

FLOWERING SHRUBS

Common Name Butterfly Bush Butterfly Bush, Fountain

Botanical Name Buddleia davidii Buddleia alternifolia

FLOWERING TREES

Common Name Mimosa / Silk Tree Pear (fruits of)

Botanical Name Albizia julibrissin Pyrus spp.

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