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Does anyone know any good lilies for hummers?

Posted by Eric580 5b (My Page) on
Tue, Jun 19, 12 at 17:20

I just wanted to know what lilies are hummingbird magnets and other perrenials too


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RE: Does anyone know any good lilies for hummers?

  • Posted by corrine1 7b Pacific Northwest (My Page) on
    Fri, Jun 22, 12 at 17:41

Any lily, tubular or red flower whether shrub or perennial attracts and provides nectar.

Some plants are more attractive & if you have a variety of plants with different blooming sequence they will stay in your yard. What really attracts them is moving water from a fountain!

A sampling of what I've seen them coming to in order of bloom in my garden

rhododedendrons
native honeysuckle
service berry shrub
bleeding heart
epimedium
lamium - spotted dead nettle
foxglove
Heuchera
fuchsia
daylily
salvia
red hot poker
monarda - bee balm
anise hyssop or other agastache
cape fuchsia, Phygelius
phlox, tall fragrant

I'm probably forgetting something. Once the bee balms are blooming I can sit out front in a chair and watch them zoom from garden to garden where I've planted different bee balms. The reds are their favorites all summer long.

I regularly see them in the morning near the fountains as soon as we put them out again in spring and resting on nearby plant trellis & supports.


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RE: Does anyone know any good lilies for hummers?

My red hot poker (Kniphofia) is attracting hummingbirds like magnets! I planted it last year and it flowered amazingly this year!Try that... it's very interesting looking, quite inexpensive and multiplies so you can divide it and have quite a lot of them in a few years.


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