Few garden events are as exciting as a visit from a hummingbird , a tiny sheaf of iridescent vigor zooming from one flower to another . red-faced flowers are well - known as favorites , but other colour are also visited . architectural plan for flowers throughout the month hummingbirds are in your domain , a assortment of shrubs , perennial and annuals that will provide a constant generator of nectar . beetle branches provide safe places for the birds to rest , and many shade - patient of flowers are favorites .
Trees, Vines and Shrubs
begin off the hummingbird season with blood-red - flowering currant , a hummingbird darling , and continue through leap with flowering quince , elderberry and weigelia .
summertime blooms could include silk Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , Albizzia julibrissin , a intermediate - sized Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree with puffy pinkish bunch of flowers , abelia trumpet vine and honeysuckles , including the coral Australian honeysuckle , Lonicera sempervirens . Fuchsias , both tippy and hardy sorts , are well - roll in the hay by hummingbirds and will often bloom decent up until icing .
Perennials
Though few perennials bloom for more than three weeks , their lush video display take a leak up for the modified season . Plant a successiveness for best result , perhaps beginning with columbine ( especially the cherry-red and yellow Aquilegia canadensis ) and continuing into summer with hollyhocks ( commonly tell to need sunshine , but quite spectre - resistant ) and foxgloves .
Lobelia cardinalis , a native plant with scarlet flowers that likes moist soils , and bee balm , in red , pink or purple varieties , are think to be authoritative hummingbird plants , but do n’t neglect the Veronicas and coral chime , both fairly low growing .
For recent summertime or fall blossom , plant the various types of crocosmia , each blossom at a somewhat unlike clip . The first one to come into salad days is the magnificent " Lucifer , " tall and bright crimson .
Annuals
Annuals have the vantage of bring home the bacon flower through fall , often right up to frost , if cut back after the first flush of bloom , so plant lots to fill in gap between perennial heyday .
Snapdragons , specially the tall rocket snapshot , are splendid hummingbird plants , and come in a wide variety of colors . Flowering tobacco plant is often whitened , but also amount in pink , red and purple shades . Nasturtiums , of course , come in reds , including the beautiful " Empress of India " sort . For pink to originate shades , choose ivy geraniums or impatiens .
