Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Westminster

Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M. An excellent choice for pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. Provide full sun and good air circulation for the best results.

Good drainage and a loose breathable mulch are key, especially where winters are cold and wet. Excellent for Hummingbirds! This is a durable and long-lived, clump forming perennial that requires little additional care once well-established.

Anise or Brazilian Sage, Salvia guaranitica , is an upright growing perennial that may flower nearly continuously from spring to frost. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring new flower production.

Sharp drainage and good air circulation will help to ensure their longevity. Coronado Red Hummingbird Mint flowers from late spring to fall and attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and larger bees.

The Firecracker Fern has excellent heat and sun tolerance as well as moderate drought resistance once well-established. It looks great spilling from containers, raised beds, over walls, and can even be used as an informal groundcover.

Purple Fountains Skullcap is considered by some to be hardy to zone 8A if provided with a deep winter mulch, we have a tendency to err on the side of caution and say zone 9 with a mulch, possibly additional protection in harder winters.

In the northern portions of its hardiness range, USDA Cold Hardiness zones 7B-8, Mulberry Jam Salvia should be provided with a breathable winter mulch such as pine straw. Mulberry Jam Salvia is a hybrid discovered in the garden of author and Salvia expert...

The Blue Pea Vine or Clitoria prefers a rich moist soil. It can be successfully overwintered but it's easier just to save a few seeds to plant in spring. Blue dye can be extracted from the blossoms!!

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. Also known as Summer Border Phlox or Fall Phlox, it is a hardy clump forming herbaceous perennial found throughout much of the eastern and central US.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return...

Removal of seed clusters will help to promote repeat flowering and this is true of most Honeysuckles that may produce fruit. The flowers attract a variety of pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, and larger bees and would most likely attract...

Members of the Coffee or Madder family, Rubiaceae, the Manettias do best in well drained, preferably acid soils. To ensure survival protect from freezing temperatures and it can easily be overwintered indoors in a well-lit, preferably sunny, warm window.

Provide a moist but well-draining soil for the best results. An excellent choice for hanging baskets, spilling from containers, or in the garden where hardy. A hummingbird magnet! Red Fountains Skullcap is considered by some to be hardy to zone 8A if...

Established plants require little additional maintenance once established but may benefit from a light summer shearing. Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M. The 1" long flowers are well suited for pollination by hummingbirds, butterflies,...

Hamelia is a Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

Provide a breathable winter mulch and good drainage in areas where winters drop below freezing for any length of time to help ensure its return. Newell's Red Cestrum can easily be enjoyed as a container plant where not hardy.

Provide good air circulation and a moderately rich soil with average moisture in full sun for the best results with Garden or Summer Phlox. David's Garden Phlox has exceptional disease resistance and was selected as the 2002 Perennial Plant of the Year.

Needs a rich but sharply draining soil and does well with equal amounts of good quality potting soil and sand or small gravel in containers. The Hardy Gloxinia produces a caudiciform-like corm and so makes an easy and interesting container specimen as...

For more about Dawn, the wonderful arboretum, and Stephen F Austin's excellent horticultural program click here. Giant Cigar typically flowers in late summer and fall, just in time for migrating Hummingbirds.

The Bird of Paradise will often return from the crown or roots but they are slow to recover flowering will be reduced until it has re-established itself. In almost all regards the Narrow-Leaved Bird of Paradise resembles its more common cousin the Orange...

Salvia leucantha 's excellent drought tolerance makes it a good choice for containers and xeriscapes. Mexican Sage Bush does best where it has excellent drainage, particularly in winter and mulching can help ensure its hardiness in questionable areas.

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. As the flowers age oranges and yellows begin to show up adding to the festivities. Provide a full to mostly sunny location and average moisture.

Cape Honeysuckle is evergreen in frost free climates and is deciduous in the cooler portions of its range. In zone 9 well established plants may suffer some freeze damage but normally return if they are given a protected position and are provided with...

Provide a full to mostly sunny site with a well-drained soil for the best results. The flowers attract butterflies and larger bees. Texas Pink Phlox is a mildew resistant free flowering selection of our native Phlox paniculata.

This tough and reliable clump forming perennial is deserving of a place in any sunny garden. Image courtesy of Itsaul Plants. In spring, once the danger of hard frosts and freezes has past, the damaged foliage can be cut back to about 3".

Maroon and white 1" tubular blooms arch from a spike of reddish-maroon bracts. An upright to sprawling perennial becoming full and dense with age.

A long-lived, disease, and pest resistant native perennial, shrub, or even small tree that can flower for much of late spring and early summer on well-established plants. The stems make a nice addition to fall and winter arrangements just remember that...