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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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