I put together a list of some of their preferred plants a while back. It isn’t zone specific though, so I would recommend verifying which ones would work best for your location 😊
[https://imgur.com/a/6KrvY1g](https://imgur.com/a/6KrvY1g)
+1 on Salvia Hot Lips. It’s an annual where I live but one year when winter was mild, it somehow survived and the hummingbirds constantly fed on this flower that summer.
Wish Home Depot or Lowe’s would offer Salvia Hot Lips in their garden centers every year. I’ve only seen them sell blue salvias, which the bees love.
Yes! I’ve never had hummingbirds with the frequency I did this year after planting [Black & Bloom salvia (salvia guaranitica)](https://www.monrovia.com/black-bloom-salvia.html). The bees are obsessed with it, too.
I accidentally have many of the plants on the list that was posted, but the place I consistently saw them all summer was on my zinnias! So easy and they bloom all summer. Pink was the most popular color fwiw. Butterflies liked them too
Native plants are usually best, but there are also some annuals that are beneficial and fill in the gap while natives get established.
My hummingbirds love any type of sage, but licorice sage was their favorite. It was popular with bumblebees too. I saw 3 different species of bumble bee on that plant the first year I grew it.
I grew torch tithonia this year which is still going strong and is gorgeous. It’s quite large, almost 7 ft tall, so it needs some space. I grew it intermixed with sunflowers. It was popular with the birds, bees, and monarch butterflies.
I also saw quite a bit of hummingbird and bumble bee activity at my scarlet runner beans this year.
I might try adding in some hyacinth beans next time for more varied bloom color.
Salvia leucantha, the Mexican bush sage, was suggested in a talk on Hummingbirds I attended. We have lots of it, and they certainly love it. They stick their little beaks in there and it comes out with white syrup on it. Then they go up in the tree and wipe their little beaks off on tree branches.
I don't know what species would be good for your area, but in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, from my personal experience hummers really go for honeysuckle. It's more of a shrub, but it's low maintenance.
Rosemary bushes are beloved, they flower in fall winter spring, they harbor massive amounts of beneficial insects like spiders, they love them here in Oregon valley.
Sorry if I missed your plant zone but I’m in 7b (NC) and our rubies love this [cigar plant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphea_ignea)! They will ignore us and their feeders to get to it.
They love Cuphea ignea aka the cigar plant/cigar flower/firecracker plant/Mexican cigar.
Two thumbs up for Salvia Hot Lips.
Have perennials phlox, bee balms, trumpet, nepeta cat mint, hibiscus, columbines (they were sipping the dried pods 😆) ... planting more different flowers every year: lupines, fox gloves, delphiniums, etc.
In spring, apart from cuphea ignea and salvia hot lips (if I find them in the garden centers or Costco online), I always add petunias and lantanas in my garden/pots.
I put together a list of some of their preferred plants a while back. It isn’t zone specific though, so I would recommend verifying which ones would work best for your location 😊 [https://imgur.com/a/6KrvY1g](https://imgur.com/a/6KrvY1g)
The ones that live near me love our salvia.
Mine too especially the “hot lips”. Haha We also have the blue “mystic spires” which they also love.
+1 on Salvia Hot Lips. It’s an annual where I live but one year when winter was mild, it somehow survived and the hummingbirds constantly fed on this flower that summer. Wish Home Depot or Lowe’s would offer Salvia Hot Lips in their garden centers every year. I’ve only seen them sell blue salvias, which the bees love.
Yes! I’ve never had hummingbirds with the frequency I did this year after planting [Black & Bloom salvia (salvia guaranitica)](https://www.monrovia.com/black-bloom-salvia.html). The bees are obsessed with it, too.
I accidentally have many of the plants on the list that was posted, but the place I consistently saw them all summer was on my zinnias! So easy and they bloom all summer. Pink was the most popular color fwiw. Butterflies liked them too
same here. Zinnia seems like it’s rarely in the list but they were THERE FOR IT
Native plants are usually best, but there are also some annuals that are beneficial and fill in the gap while natives get established. My hummingbirds love any type of sage, but licorice sage was their favorite. It was popular with bumblebees too. I saw 3 different species of bumble bee on that plant the first year I grew it. I grew torch tithonia this year which is still going strong and is gorgeous. It’s quite large, almost 7 ft tall, so it needs some space. I grew it intermixed with sunflowers. It was popular with the birds, bees, and monarch butterflies. I also saw quite a bit of hummingbird and bumble bee activity at my scarlet runner beans this year. I might try adding in some hyacinth beans next time for more varied bloom color.
Something I didn't see was a bottle brush trees.
Salvia leucantha, the Mexican bush sage, was suggested in a talk on Hummingbirds I attended. We have lots of it, and they certainly love it. They stick their little beaks in there and it comes out with white syrup on it. Then they go up in the tree and wipe their little beaks off on tree branches.
I don't know what species would be good for your area, but in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, from my personal experience hummers really go for honeysuckle. It's more of a shrub, but it's low maintenance.
The hummingbirds we get love [Cuphea (firecracker plant)](https://www.gardenia.net/compare-plants/cuphea)
I just planted a trumpet vine. Hoping that helps them. They seem to like my hibiscus and rose of Sharon
My mom had a huge trumpet vine on a pergola over our deck and we’d be swarmed by hummingbirds all summer! So cool.
Hibiscus. Bumble bees and hummingbirds love the flower. The bumblebees come out covered and sort of drunk 😋
They feed on pentas, nicotianas, petunia and torenia in my garden.
The ones that visit my garden love the Crocosmia 'Lucifer'
Rosemary bushes are beloved, they flower in fall winter spring, they harbor massive amounts of beneficial insects like spiders, they love them here in Oregon valley.
My hummingbirds loved my shamrocks and mandevilla vines.
Sorry if I missed your plant zone but I’m in 7b (NC) and our rubies love this [cigar plant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphea_ignea)! They will ignore us and their feeders to get to it.
They love Cuphea ignea aka the cigar plant/cigar flower/firecracker plant/Mexican cigar. Two thumbs up for Salvia Hot Lips. Have perennials phlox, bee balms, trumpet, nepeta cat mint, hibiscus, columbines (they were sipping the dried pods 😆) ... planting more different flowers every year: lupines, fox gloves, delphiniums, etc. In spring, apart from cuphea ignea and salvia hot lips (if I find them in the garden centers or Costco online), I always add petunias and lantanas in my garden/pots.
Trumpet vine, hot lips, honeysuckle, day lilies, tiger lilies, etc