Plants for Butterfllies

Flowers that Attract Hummingbirds

The hummingbirds that visit our garden center seem to always head straight for the red monarada when it’s blooming.  We try to keep the variety “Jacob Cline” stocked both for it’s red color and resistance to mildew.  Hummingbirds will visit a varity of other flowers through the season. Here is a list to consider.


Aquilegia (Columbine)
Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)
Campsis radicans (Trumpet Vine)
Crocosmia 'Lucifer' (actually a corm)
Delphinium (especially D. cardinale)
Digitalis (Foxglove)
Dicentra (Bleeding Heart)
Heuchera (Coral Bells)
Hibiscus
Iris
Kniphofia (Torch Lily/Red Hot Poker)
Lonicera (honeysuckle)
Lobelia cardinalis
Lupine
Mimulus (Monkey Flower)
Monarda (Bee Balm)
Penstemon (Beardtongue)
Phlox
Physostegia (Obedient Plant)
Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
Salvia (Sage...especially S. splendens)
Zauschneria (California Fuchsia

 

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