Salvia Windwalker ‘Ruby Red’, courtesy Plant Select
Create a Hummingbird Haven
If your garden is missing that unmistakable buzz, planting Salvias will fill the void!
Not only do Salvia species and cultivars contain nectar that draws hummingbirds like a magnet, but they also feed a wide spectrum of native bees and butterflies, as well as honeybees.
In addition, Salvias (sages) provide spectacular, saturated color for long periods of time. Our perennial varieties bloom either continuously (Windwalker ‘Ruby Red’, S. lemmonii ‘Desert Rose’, S. greggii ‘Furman’s Red’), or repeatedly (Blue Hill, Blue Queen, Caradonna, S. cyanescens, East Friesland, May Night, Rose Marvel).
And we also have (on sale!) lots of annual Salvia that will bloom until hard frost arrives: Blue Victory, Victoria Blue, Bonfire Red, and Scarlet Sage (S. coccinea)!
A few other plants we sell (not all are in stock at any given time) to consider for attracting hummingbirds:
Agastache (Hummingbird Mint, Hyssop): aurantiaca ‘Coronado’, aur. ‘Apricot Sprite’, aur. ‘Coronado Red, barberi ‘Tutti Frutti’, cana, cana ‘Sonoran Sunset’, foeniculum, foen. ‘Blue Fortune’, ‘Black Adder’, rupestris, pallidiflora
Agave sp. – Hardy Century Plant
Castilleja integra
Buddleia davidii selections – Butterfly Bush
Castilleja integra – Indian Paintbrush
Campsis radicans – Trumpet Vine
Chilopsis linearis – Desert Willow
Cleome serrulata – Rocky Mt. Bee Plant
Echinocereus triglochidiatus – Claret Cup Cactus
Fuchsia
Hesperaloe parviflora – Red Yucca
Ipomopsis/Gilia rubra – Scarlet Gilia
Ipomopsis aggregata – Standing Cypress
Lonicera ‘Dropmore Scarlet’ – Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle
Lonicera heckrottii ‘Goldflame’ – Goldflame Honeysuckle
Lonicera japonica ‘Kansas Purple’ – Kansas Purple Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens ‘Major Wheeler’ – Major Wheeler Honeysuckle
Lychnis coronaria – Maltese Cross
Mina lobata – Spanish Flag Vine
Monarda: many species and cultivars
Ipomopsis rubra
Monardella macrantha ‘Marian Sampson’
Nepeta sibirica ‘Blue Beauty’ – Siberian Catmint
Penstemon barbatus coccineus – Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon barbatus ‘Rondo’
Penstemon comarrhenus
Penstemon cardinalis – Cardinal Beardtongue
Penstemon glaber
Penstemon ‘Electric Blue’
Penstemon grifinnii
Penstemon x mex. ‘Red Rocks’
Penstemon pinifolius – Pineleaf Penstemon
Penstemon pinifolius ‘Mersea Yellow’
Penstemon pseudospectabilis – Desert Penstemon
Penstemon rostriflorus – Bridges’ Penstemon
Penstemon smallii
Penstemon strictus – Rocky Mt. Penstemon
Penstemon superbus – Superb Penstemon
Monarda
Penstemon virgatus – Wand-bloom Penstemon
Petunia exserta – Brazilian Red Petunia
Salvia x microphylla ‘Windwalker’
Salvia coccinea – Annual Mexican Red Sage
Salvia darcyi – Mexican Red Salvia
Salvia greggii ‘Furman’s Red’
Salvia pachyphylla – Mojave Sage
Scarlet Runner Bean (seeds)
Scrophularia macrantha – Red Birds in a Tree