Potted Flowers For Hummingbirds And Butterflies

There are many plants to choose from, but you may find that your local hummingbirds and butterflies prefer certain types of flowers. Just like with bees, if you want to attract butterflies, there are certain flowers that are guaranteed to have them fluttering about your beds.

Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) on Obedient Plant

Long, tubular blooms (the shape is hard for insects to sip nectar from but easy for hummingbirds), sweet nectar and a flower spike filled with lots of little blossoms.

Potted flowers for hummingbirds and butterflies. This plant is winter hardy to usda zones 3 to 7 and not recommended for hot, humid climates. Use for making potpourri or herbal wreaths and teas. 10 to 48 inches tall and 10 to 28 inches wide.

Smaller varieties with a mounding or trailing habit work well in containers. Also known as larkspur, delphinium is a vibrant perennial that can grow from 2 to 8 feet tall. With profuse tiny flowers, there’s plenty of nectar for both hummingbirds and butterflies.

Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are attracted to monarda. Also known as beardtongue, penstemon has everything that makes for an ideal hummingbird flower: Now, fuchsias themselves are also fantastic flowers for hummingbirds and most fuchsias have evolved to have downward facing tubular blooms, almost protecting themselves from anything other then highly nimble hummingbirds that can handle the maneuvers required to collect the nectar from the plant.

Monarda is also known as bee balm, bergamot, and oswego tea. Bring depth and visual interest to your hanging garden by combining potted flowers that attract hummingbirds with staggered heights and habits. A north american native perennial and part of the mint family.

These shrubs or trailing plants can be grown as either annuals or perennials. When planted with colorful flowers, window boxes entice hummingbirds to a feast of accessible nectar all summer long. For example, you could place mounding or upright plants, such as salvia, penstemon or zinnias , toward the center of the pot, then accent with trailing plants—such as verbena, parrot’s beak or trailing petunias—positioned along the outer edges.

For hummingbirds , plant selection is especially important since they have evolved to feed in a very specific manner. They are a good choice for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden. This is a guide about growing lantana.

Plants that attract hummingbirds have showy flowers in the colors that hummingbirds see best — red, orange, yellow, lavender and pink. Butterflies and hummingbirds find them irresistible, and you'll love them as cut flowers,. Songbirds nibble on black berries later in the growing season.

If you live in a tropical climate or zones 8 to 11, try lantana as a shrub or a perennial. A number of hummingbird or butterfly favorites, such as petunias, salvias, geraniums, verbena, lantana and trailing ivy can be combined to create a miniature garden in just one window box. It can also be grown as an annual in cooler regions where the bush will grow to about 2 feet tall.

A busy garden full of activity—earthworms in the soil, flying critters visiting the flowers that attract bees—is a healthy garden. Bright colorful blooms with fragrant foliage. It can be hard to find as a potted plant, but you can buy seeds here.* vines

Bee balm is a great attraction to hummingbirds and other pollinators. These hardy plants can be potted in containers, and hummingbirds and butterflies will love them. ’pardon my cerise’ (pictured), ‘jacob kline’, ’leading lady orchid’

This pollinator container garden features salvia, angelonia and lantana (design by peg bier, merrifield plant and design specialist). Ignored by deer and rabbits, yet a favorite of hummingbirds and butterflies. And as the name implies, it is one of the best flowers for hummingbirds!

Several varieties are available in bright, warm tones of yellow, orange, and red.

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