Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Charlotte

Needs a well drained soil. As the name implies, Hummingbirds enjoy the nectar of this shrub. Blooms from mid-summer to fall. Cut to the ground in spring for denser growth. A new color twist on and old favorite.

Provide a moderately fertile, well-drained soil and a full to mostly sunny location for the best results. Few other vines have the flower power that these vines do once they are established.

In containers it generally remains smaller but periodic tipping in mid to late spring will help to keep it full as well as produce more flowering tips. In areas with cooler summers it can be grown in more sun.

A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at SFA Gardens in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection. For more about Dawn, the wonderful arboretum, and Stephen F Austin's excellent...

Here in the US we get to enjoy Hummingbirds enjoying their bounty. The Bird of Paradise produces exotic and unusual, tropical looking orange, blue, and purple bird-like flowers that are perfectly designed to allow Sunbirds to perch on the tips of the...

Easy to grow and wonderfully rewarding! A clump forming die-back perennial that readily reseeds on exposed soils creating a groundcover in time. Attracts hummingbirds and bees. In well mulched beds it seems to stay where you put it freezing back at the...

Indoors provide it with high mostly indirect light or cool direct sunlight and high humidity. This is very similar to Aphelandra sinclairiana but a few minor differences set it apart making us think that it may be A.

The Firecracker Fern has excellent heat and sun tolerance as well as moderate drought resistance once well-established. Good drainage and a loose breathable mulch are key, especially where winters are cold and wet.

An upright yet bushy shrubby perennial that enjoys shady conditions. Brilliant red tubular flowers are borne in tall branching spikes atop the glossy deep green foliage in fall and winter.

Trumpet Creeper's vigor, tolerance of poor soils, and durability lend it to use in difficult sites. The last image, or furthest to the right, provides a comparison of the common orange flowered Trumpet Creeper at top, Ruby Red center, and Mango Yellow...

A beautiful clear yellow Cape Honeysuckle that produces masses of 2" tubular flowers in large clusters in summer and fall or nearly continuously throughout the year under frost free conditions.

Add Cherry Queen Salvia to the garden or enjoy it as a low maintenance container plant in any sunny location. Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M. For more information on growing Salvia greggii and its hybrids see Dr. William C.

A hummingbird magnet! The show begins in late spring and lasts into fall on established plants. A RHS Award of Garden Merit winner! Image courtesy of Spring Valley Greenhouse. A freely flowering hybrid, Mandarin Honeysuckle produces clusters of up to...

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production.

The Eastern Bluestar makes a wonderful garden addition with a mannerly clump forming habit and excellent pest and disease resistance. Clusters of blue to light blue, star-shaped flowers are borne in spring on sturdy stems atop the wide foliage.

This is a vigorous, shrub-like woody perennial that can reach 8-12' in mild winter climates and few plants can compete with the enormous amount of flowers that this plant can produce.

In summer it produces dense spikes of tubular white flowers atop sturdy stems that attract a variety of pollinators including hummingbirds.This is a hardy, perennial that is native to the eastern half of North America and prefers moist to wet soils but...

Rio Red Ruellia will easily reach 30-40" high and will make a loose groundcover. Use this exceptionally free flowering tropical to tender perennial in the garden, landscape, or in containers for a spring to fall display.

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production. From large dense clusters of light green calyxes emerge large, velvety purple tubular...

Purple Sage, or Autumn Purple Sage is a vigorous easy to grow species from south of the border with a mounding to upright habit. Attracts hummingbirds as well as larger butterflies.

Attracts Hummingbirds. 1" tubular orange blooms, tipped in white, are produced from spring to fall. In the portion of its range where freezes occur it can be grown as an annual or if protected with a mulch it is generally reliably perennial well into...

Provide good drainage and fertile, average moist soil in partial to filtered sun for the best results. Establish Iochroma plants in the ground in spring once the soil temperatures have begun to warm and fully past all danger of frost.

Also, Deneen Shaffer wrote: "Our farm favorite was the Morello Agastache, described to me as 'A great plant in every way. Strong color in both the blooms and foliage; neat, controlled habit; appealing architecture; consistent, all over blooming.'" One...

Container grown plants should be appropriately acclimated before planting out. In areas where temperatures fall below freezing set out young plants in spring and early summer. The Hardy Gloxinia produces a caudiciform-like corm and so makes an easy and...

Excellent for Hummingbirds and other long-tongued pollinators. The Giant Turk's Cap is considered to be a hybrid, either man-made or natural, and has been passed around for many years and is now known by a variety of common names including: Mazapan, Sleepy...

Attracts a wide range of pollinators. Cherry pink tubular flowers are born from spring to fall on this Texas tough Skullcap. A light late winter pruning should be all that is necessary when it comes to maintenance.

It is also moderately drought resistant once well established but will produce the most flowers when it is provided with average moisture during the growing season. The Red Cape Honeysuckle produces masses of dark red 2" tubular flowers in large clusters...