Gardening Tips : Flowers for a Hummingbird Garden

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Flowers for a hummingbird garden include trumpet-shaped blooms like crocosmias, galtonias, fuschias and mandevillas. Plant flowers for a hummingbird garden with tips from a professional gardener in this free video on gardening. Expert: Yolonda Vanveen Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. She is the owner of VanveenBulbs. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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We don't have humming birds in Ireland :'(

what about gladiola s

if considering flowers find natives not exotics

they are going in for nectar not pollen

Avoid the red trumpet and honeysuckle vines if you do not like aggressive plants even though hummingbirds seem to like them. Once planted they will turn up everywhere!

They are eating nectar not going after pollen...?

@dictionaryzzz Very few exotics support biodiversity. One exception would be Scarlet Milkweed (Asclepias curavassica) which is both a host plant (for caterpillars) and nectar plant for Monarch butterflies and it supports Milkweed bugs and Milkweed beetles. Natives are always best since they are adapted for your particular climate and have developed relationships with their pollinators and seed dispersers over thousands of years.

@YolandaVanveen I agree as long as they are controlled in a greenhouse setting. Once people use them outdoors that's when things get out of control. Especially if the plant has wind dispersed seeds and growths in a similar climate or has roots that are nearly impossible to remove like bamboo so it gets a foot hold.

@squito94 I read that a mixture of exotics and natives is actually the best type of garden. It provides the most biodiversity. Exotics are okay as long as there not invasive

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