Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Colorado Springs

Provide a full sun or near full sun location with average moist but well-drained soils. Plant in mass for the best effect. These are deer resistant plants with a long flowering season and are sure to attract any and all pollinators that can reach the...

Scentsation Honeysuckle is vigorous enough to cover a medium sized trellis or small arbor but well-mannered enough for garden culture. Whorls of sweetly fragrant, 2" long creamy white flowers that deepen to primrose yellow are borne at the ends of stems...

A RHS Award of Garden Merit winner! Image courtesy of Spring Valley Greenhouse. A freely flowering hybrid, Mandarin Honeysuckle produces clusters of up to 15 or more, 3" long red to reddish-orange tubular, widely flaring flowers that show off the lighter...

Newell's Red Cestrum can easily be enjoyed as a container plant where not hardy. An excellent choice for hummingbirds and larger butterflies. Consider providing midday or afternoon shade in areas with hot summers.

The last three images, those furthest to right, capture hummingbirds visiting this free flowering plant and were kindly contributed by F. Makes an easy, medium to large container plant where not hardy.

Phlox is adored by butterflies and hummingbirds alike! Robert Poore is one of only a handful of Garden Phlox cultivars recommended for southern gardens by noted Texas plantsman Greg Grant.

In areas where temperatures fall below about 25 o F the Firecracker Fern will typically act as a die-back perennial, even into portions of zone 8B if given a protected location. Easily overwintered in containers where not hardy.

Provide your Killer Cranberry Salvia, a.k.a. Littleleaf Sage, with good drainage and ample sunlight for the best performance and a winter mulch in the cooler portions of its growing range.

Autumn Sage, and its hybrids, are easy and drought resistant shrub-like and generally evergreen perennial native to southwestern North America. Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M.

You can grow Crossvines on large stumps or posts, sturdy trellises, along fences where they may stretch to 30' or more, as well as up walls. Compared to most vines the maintenance for Cross Vines is very minimal.

Attracts hummingbirds and bees. A clump forming die-back perennial that readily reseeds on exposed soils creating a groundcover in time. In well mulched beds it seems to stay where you put it freezing back at the first hard frost and returning each spring.

The Red Ruellias may reseed on exposed soils but rarely do so in mulched beds. Deep cerise red, widely flaring flowers are produced throughout the warmer months of the year on this taller growing selection of Red Ruellia.

These are deer resistant plants with a long flowering season and are sure to attract any and all pollinators that can reach the nectar reward of its tubular flowers. Deer and rabbit resistant.

As with any tropical plant that you intend to grow as a die-back perennial, it is always best to establish them in spring and early summer and provide an appropriate winter mulch. The Giant Turk's Cap is considered to be a hybrid, either man-made or natural,...

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 say zone 9 with a mulch, possibly additional protection in harder winters.

Anise or Brazilian Sage, Salvia guaranitica, is an upright growing perennial that may flower nearly continuously from spring to frost. Periodic deadheading is not required but may help to keep the plants looking fresher.

If it sprawls too much it can easily be pruned back to about halfway or periodic pinching will help to keep it fuller and bushier. The flowers attract loads of hummingbirds and other long-tongued pollinators.

Flowers that have been pollinated will develop long, swollen pods that turn black and curl with age. Tolerant of a wide range of soil types the Mamou is also a component of the seasonally wet, clay soils of the Cajun Prairie as well as the saltier, sandy...

This is the latest flowering Physostegia that we grow. The Fall Obedient Plant will readily spread by rhizomes creating a mass of sturdy, 3-4' stems. Like most Physostegias this one is commonly found in moderately moist areas.

It has proven to be a reliable perennial in zone 8B. The Calusa Mexican Fire Bush boasts deep rich reddish colored foliage, a denser branching more compact habit, large clusters of deep orange-red tubular flowers, and improved disease resistance.

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.

It is probably best suited to landscape plantings in only the mildest winter climates and may freeze to the ground if temperatures reach the mid to low 20 o F's. Even though this species is native to more desert like climates it can tolerate typical rainfall...

Or find Greg and Dr. William C. Greg says of Helen Fredel that "Flower color is something between 'Atrosanguinea' and 'Tangerine Beauty' - red-orange with a yellow throat. Attracts hummingbirds and other pollinators.

The nectar rich flowers of the Red Yucca are adored by hummingbirds and other pollinators. The evergreen, rolled, arching and often twisted foliage of the Red Yucca provides purplish winter tones.

Either way, these are excellent, hardy, and long-lived perennials with immense flower power. Where they don't freeze back, a hard late-winter pruning will act as a renewal and may help to rid them of overwintering pests as well as to keep them full and...

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.

It is also easy enough to overwinter a few cuttings indoors to plant the following spring. An upright yet bushy shrubby perennial that enjoys shady conditions. If well-established Firespike is generally considered hardy well into zone 8B.