For those who enjoy both gardening and birdwatching, it is fortunate that there's such a plenitude of plants for attracting hummingbirds from which to choose. Bird watchers desirous of attracting hummingbirds with flowers dripping with nectar needn't sacrifice landscaping beauty at all. It is one of those happy coincidences in life: many of the plants adept at attractingour attention are also considered among the best flowers to attract hummingbirds, hungry for the food that they bear.
The variety of plants for attracting hummingbirds is so great that, in the process of building hummingbird gardens, you could also be building a landscape that will be the talk of the neighborhood. In selecting flowers to attract hummingbirds, you are not limited to using red flowers, although the color, red is notorious for attracting hummingbirds. In the following list of flowers commonly used for attracting hummingbirds, you'll see lots of red flowers, but also flowers in purple, white, orange, pink and blue. They're all rich in nectar, the hummingbird food par excellence.
Nor is the diversity of plants for attracting hummingbirds restricted to color. Annuals and perennials, vines, shrubs, trees, bedding plants and hanging plants: you can choose from all these categories in selecting flowers for attracting hummingbirds. The following are some criteria to consider when selecting plants (in addition to the obvious -- adeptness at attracting hummingbirds):
- Diversity: to increase landscape design options, I have intentionally selected a variety of sizes,
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