Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Abilene

Image courtesy of Spring Valley Greenhouse. Dropmore Scarlet is an old and popular selection of Brown's Honeysuckle that is also a hit with hummingbirds and other pollinators. The flowers may be followed by clusters of showy bright showy red berries that...

Established plants require little additional maintenance once established but may benefit from a light summer shearing. Full sun and excellent drainage generally provide the best results.

The exposed tubers of garden grown plants should be provided with a breathable mulch for winter protection where temperatures fall much below freezing for any period of time. Mulch in winter to protect the corm from freeze damage.

For more information see " Cape Honeysuckle " from Texas A&M's Aggie Horticulture's Ornamentals for the Texas Gulf Coast. Where not hardy it is easily maintained as a container plant.

It is not uncommon to find it growing in the partial shade of the Longleaf Pine ecosystem but many of the most beautiful specimens can be found growing in full sun. A long-lived, disease, and pest resistant native perennial, shrub, or even small tree...

The Crybaby or Cockspur Coral Tree is a beautiful and heat loving deciduous tropical looking small tree with good drought tolerance and is slightly salt tolerant. Fast growing and quickly becoming a large bush or small tree.

Loose spikes of pure white tubular, two-lipped flowers are produced in abundance throughout the growing season on this durable native shrub-like perennial. An excellent choice for pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees.

Obviously, we cannot recommend this. Grows well in full sun to part shade. Hophead Barleria develops into a small but well branched full shrub and makes an easy to enjoy container plant as it is drought resistant enough to use in xeriscapes where hardy.

We apologize for any confusion but this is actually an old, likely hybrid, honeysuckle that originated from Pam Puryear's grandmother's garden in Navasota, Texas. The fragrance is most noticeable in the late afternoon and evening.

White tubular blooms emerge from tall, velvety, purple calyxes on dense flower spikes from late summer to fall. Mexican Sage bush is a drought tolerant, sun and heat loving reliable clump forming perennial that is considered deer proof.

They can also be pruned in spring just before growth begins again. Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M. Some sources suggest that no fertilizer is required or desired once established.

It is also easy enough to overwinter a few cuttings indoors to plant the following spring. Naturally an evergreen, shrub-like perennial in frost free locations it can also be grown as a die-back perennial into zone 8 if given winter protection such as...

Attracts Hummingbirds. Glossy green slightly quilted foliage on arching to trailing stems. 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...

The flowers attract loads of hummingbirds and other long-tongued pollinators. Enjoy Schumann's Cuphea as a container plant or in the garden. Provide a well-drained, moderately fertile soil for the best results.

An unusual plant rarely found for sale in the US, Giant Blue African Salvia produces spikes, up to 16" high, of blue to purple, up to 2" long, hooded, two-lipped, tubular, lightly fragrant flowers throughout the warmer months of the year.

The second image provides a comparison of the common orange flowered Trumpet Creeper at top, Ruby Red center, and Mango Yellow bottom. Use as an espalier, allow it to climb a sturdy fence, or cover an arbor.

An easy perennial suitable for naturalizing and as an informal ground cover. Vivid Obedient Plant has a compact habit that tops out at about two feet and it will readily spread by rhizomes creating a mass of sturdy stems and flowers.

Yellow throated, red to coral colored, tubular flowers, often in small but densely packed clusters, are borne on tall, sturdy, 4-6' spikes beginning in spring and often lasting well into fall.

These are seedling grown and so the flower color may be range from a rich orange to nearly yellow to a dark brick red. The last image, or furthest to the right, provides a comparison of the common orange flowered Trumpet Creeper at top, Ruby Red center,...

Keeping plants dryer in late summer, fall and into winter may give them increased tolerance to extreme cold. Flowers may be produced in summer and fall if moisture is available. Creating an overall pink effect, the powderpuff like clusters of pink to...

Bright cherry red, 1" long tubular, two-lipped, nectar rich flowers are produced in spikes beginning in spring and continuing well into fall. Cherry Chief Salvia develops into a naturally rounded mound covered in flowers on this excellent perennial Salvia...

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.

Spikes of deep red, 1" long tubular flowers are produced throughout the growing season on this low growing, semi-spreading Salvia greggii hybrid making it an excellent addition near the front of the garden or landscape.

Easy and enjoyable. Louisiana Bluestar is a rare and unusual Amsonia with large rounded velvety foliage with a silvery reverse. Unlike most other Bluestars it is short rhizomatous but is not invasive or aggressive and develops into a small tight colony...

CliotmMagenta Cleome's sterility provides more flowers over a longer period. Great in the garden or in mixed containers. This is a moderately drought resistant annual once well-established but average moisture and good drainage will produce the greatest...

Either way, these are excellent, hardy, and long-lived perennials with immense flower power. The Variegated Turk's Cap is also known as 'Fiesta'. Shade tolerant, deer resistant, moderately salt tolerant, and moderately drought resistant once they are...

An absolute Hummingbird magnet and its great for the butterflies too. San Antonio Red is one of the reddest flowered Hummingbird Bushes producing rich red upward facing tubular flowers that are borne in spike-like clusters from summer to fall on this...