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There are some great hummingbird plants blooming in my hood right now, so I thought I'd start a thread. Feel free to add your faves. This is crocosmia. It is a perennial that spreads easily and neighbours divide and share them. You can also buy less spready ones.
This is scarlet bee balm, a real hummingbird magnet that long-tongued bees also love. It's nice and tall, which is good because hummers prefer to be up away from the ground, safe from feline predators.
Verbena bonariensis is a tall, lacy plant that bees and hummers also love. This is easy to incorporate into any garden because it doesn't shade other plants.
Red, orange, and pink tubular flowers are often good choices for hummers. The pink and red penstemons are great and on the right you have a pinky-red nicotiana.
Can you spot the hummer? This is cape fuschia or my neighbour calls it the lipstick plant. I also like the white cultivar. It's quite glorious and hummers fight over it, as you can imagine.
On the left we have agastache which is in the mint family and pumps out lots of nectar. There are "hummingbird mints" that are pink and orange flowering agastache. And on the right, another penstemon. Love the dark foliage on this cultivar.
There are three plants in my back yard that a female Anna's hummingbird just showed me that she likes. She loves this Italian bugloss. She went to every flower on this plant. Plants in the borage family tend to refill quickly with nectar, so they get visited multiple times a day.
She'll get a little top-up of nectar from the perennials sweet peas and perch on the red tomato cage. Then she goes for the honeysuckle, perching on the vines and sucking up that nectar like crazy.
