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Hummingbird Garden

Hummingbirds are high energy creatures.  Fill your garden with plants that produce enough nectar (liquid energy) to sustain hummingbirds and your garden will be all the more spectacular.  I love it when the hummingbirds that take up residence, the chatter that a nesting hummingbird will put out as you approach yields a potent dose of well expressed opinion.  You can further encourage the hummingbirds by putting up a hummingbird feeder, but this is not necessary if the plants can sustain them.  If you do put out a feeder be sure to change the unused sugar solution every few days as it can sour, and to remove the feeders when the hummingbirds should be migrating South.  Planning a garden for hummingbirds is not so hard.  They love flowers about as much as most gardeners.  I try to have plants that bloom throughout the seasons, encouraging the hummingbirds is just an added incentive.  But there are some plants that are spectacular at attracting hummingbirds.  The following plant list will be sure to draw in any hummingbirds that are in your neighborhood.  This Anna's Hummingbird was alternating between feeding on Grevillea blossom nectar and making pit stops at a local feeder.

Anna's Hummingbird in our Garden

Abutilon peach

Abutilon Pink

Abutilon Moonchimes

Abutilon Nabob

Abutilon Red

Abutilon Seashell

Agastache aurantiaca Apricot Sunrise

Agastache barberi Tutti Fruitti

Agastache foeniculum

Albizia julibrissin

Alyogyne Monterey Bay

Alyogyne Santa Cruz

Anisodontea hypomandarum

Anisodontea Tara's Wonder

Aquilegia formosa

Arctostaphylos Howard McMinn

Beloperone californica

Bignonia capreolata Tangerine Beauty

Buddleia asiatica

Buddleia Black Knight

Buddleia Harlequin

Buddleia Honeycomb

Buddleia Lochinch

Buddleia Nanho Purple

Buddleia Pink Delight

Calliandra californica

Calliandra haematocephala

Calliandra tweedii

Callistemon Cane's Hybrid

Callistemon citrinus Jeffersii

Callistemon Little John

Callistemon viminalis 

Campsis radicans

Cercis canadense Forest Pansy

Cercis occidentalis

Cerinthe major

Cestrum aurantiacum

Cestrum elegans Smithii

Cestrum newellii

Cirsium occidentale

Correa Dusky Bells

Correa Ivory Bells

Correa reflexa Cape Carpet

Cuphea Caribbean Sunset

Cuphea cyanea

Cuphea ignea

Cuphea lanceolata Starfire

Cuphea micropetala

Dicliptera suberecta

Duranta erecta

Epilobium canum

Eremophila aurea

Eremophila glabra Kalgoorlie

Eremophila maculata

Erythrina acanthocarpa

Erythrina bidwillii

Erythrina caffra

Erythrina coralloides

Erythrina crista-galli

Erythrina falcata

Eucalyptus sideroxylon

Eucalyptus torquata

Feijoa sellowiana

Fremontodendron californicum California Glory

Fremontodendron Ken Taylor

Fuchsia arborescens

Fuchsia gartenmeister Bronstedt

Fuchsia thymifolia

Fuchsia thymifolia variegata

Galvezia speciosa

Grevillea alpina

Grevillea Coastal Gem

Grevillea Long John

Grevillea Poorinda Blondie

Grevillea robusta

Grevillea Robyn Gordon

Grevillea victoriae

Greyia sutherlandii

Hakea laurina

Heliotropium arborescens

Heliotropium Black Beauty

Hypoestes aristata

Hyptis emoryi Silver Lining

Iochroma cyaneum

Iochroma grandiflora

Isoplexis canariensis

Justicia aurea

Justicia carnea

Justicia coccinea

Justicia Fruit Salad

Justicia Jambalaya

Justicia leonardii

Justicia rizzinii

Justicia suberecta

Keckiellia cordifolia

Kniphofia Shining Sceptre

 

Lavatera assurgentifolia

Lavatera Barnsley

Lavatera bicolor

Lavatera purisima

Leonotis leonurus

Leonotis leonurus white

Lepechinia fragrans El Tigre

Lepechinia hastata

Leucophyllum frutescens

Lobelia cardinalis

Lobelia laxiflora

Lonicera japonica purpurea

Malvaviscus arboreus

Melianthus major

Mimulus aurantiacus

Mimulus cardinalis

Mimulus flemingii

Mimulus Georgie Red

Mimulus Jack

Mimulus Midnight

Mimulus puniceus

Mimulus Ruby Silver

Odontonema strictum

Pavonia missionum

Pavonia praemorsa

Penstemon centranthiflolius

Penstemon grinnellii

Penstemon heterophyllus

Penstemon Margarita BOP

Penstemon mexicali Red Rocks

Penstemon parryi

Phygelius capensis

Psorelia pinnata

Punica granatum Wonderful

Rehmannia elata

Rhus integrifolia

Rhus ovata

Ribes aureum

Ribes malvaceum

Ribes speciosum

Russelia equisetiformis

Salvia adenophora

Salvia africana lutea

Salvia apiana

Salvia blepharophylla

Salvia brandegeei

Salvia canariensis

Salvia carduacea

Salvia chiapensis

Salvia clevelandii Winnifred Gilman

Salvia coahuilensis

Salvia confertiflora

Salvia darcyi

Salvia dorisiana

Salvia dorrii

Salvia elegans

Salvia gesneriiflora

Salvia greggii alba

Salvia greggii Annie

Salvia greggii Furman's Red

Salvia greggii San Takao

Salvia Indigo Spires

Salvia involucrata

Salvia iodantha

Salvia karwinskii

Salvia lanceolata

Salvia leucantha

Salvia leucantha midnight

Salvia leucantha Santa Barbara

Salvia leucophylla Point Sal

Salvia madrensis

Salvia mellifera

Salvia mellifera Terra Seca

Salvia microphylla Berzerkeley

Salvia microphylla Hot Lips

Salvia microphylla Maraschino

Salvia Mystic Spires Blue

Salvia patens

Salvia regla

Salvia semi-atrata

Salvia Sierra de San Antonio

Salvia spathacea

Salvia uliginosa

Salvia urica

Salvia wagneriana

Salvia Waverly

Silene laciniata

Sphaeralcea ambigua

Sphaeralcea fulva

Sphaeralcea philippiana

Streptosolen jamesonii

Tabebuia chrysotricha

Tabebuia impetiginosa

Tecoma X Smithii

Tecoma stans

Teucrium fruticans azureum

Trichostema lanatum

Verbena bonariensis

Zauschneria californica

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