Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Milwaukee

This tough plant is moderately salt tolerant making it a good choice for coastal plantings. Mexican Sage Bush does best where it has excellent drainage, particularly in winter and mulching can help ensure its hardiness in questionable areas.

This large and robust Physostegia is typically found in consistently moist to wet areas growing in ditches and along stream banks in western Louisiana and eastern Texas. Personally I would rather have called it the Foxglove False Dragonhead:)

Provide a moist but well-draining soil for the best results. An excellent choice for hanging baskets, spilling from containers, or in the garden where hardy. A hummingbird magnet! Red Fountains Skullcap is considered by some to be hardy to zone 8A if...

Some sources suggest that no fertilizer is required or desired once established.The 1" long flowers are well suited for pollination by hummingbirds, butterflies, and long tongued bees.

Hamelia is 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.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. Purple 2" long tubular flowers emerge from dark colored spikes atop a bushy, vigorous, and free flowering Salvia that flowers...

For more about Dawn, the wonderful arboretum, and Stephen F Austin's excellent horticultural program at SFA Gardens click here. Either way, these are excellent, hardy, and long-lived perennials with immense flower power.

It is naturally an arching to upright shrub-like perennial that remains evergreen in the warmer portions of its cold hardiness range but well-established plants may act like die-back perennials in zones 8B and 9A.

Like most root hardy tropical plants, it will be best to establish your plants early in the season so that they can develop a large and vigorous root system before winter sets in. It is even listed as being suitable for xeriscaping.

Whorls of sweetly fragrant, 2" long creamy white flowers that deepen to primrose yellow are borne at the ends of stems adorned with deep blue green foliage in late spring and summer and are followed by clear crimson berries.

An excellent and easy hybrid Cuphea that flowers nearly non-stop from spring through 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 zone 8.

All three have similar growth habits and are will slowly spread by runners but never seem to be invasive or overly aggressive. In the northern portions of its range (zones 8B, 9) provide these Glory Bowers with a protected location preferably against...

In zone 9 well established plants may suffer some freeze damage but normally return if they are given a protected position and are provided with a winter mulch. The Red Cape Honeysuckle produces masses of dark red 2" tubular flowers in large clusters...

2-3" long, light bluish purple, slightly flaring tubular flowers are produced in large hanging clusters designed for hummingbird pollination. This miniature cousin of the Angel's Trumpet is easily enjoyed as a container plant where not hardy.

Heleniums should be cut back after flowering. Deep brick red petals surround the rounded 'cones' of this spicily colored Helenium beginning in midsummer and continuing well into fall.

Provide Agastache with a full or near full sun location and allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings. Spikes of red rounded buds open to deep orange, 1" long tubular flowers that darken to deep red and contrast nicely with the gray-green...

Heleniums should be cut back after flowering. An award winning perennial, the 1-1/2 to 2" wide flowers of Mardi Gras Helenium open to yellow and orange petals highlighted by deep reds that surround a small chestnut colored cone.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent...

This tough and reliable clump forming perennial is deserving of a place in any sunny garden. Image courtesy of Itsaul Plants. Another excellent introduction in the line of repeat flowering Torch Lilies, Echo Duo produces tall spikes of densely packed...

An excellent and easy hybrid Cuphea that flowers nearly non-stop from spring through 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 zone 8.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. Fuzzy deep fuchsia colored tubular flowers emerge from short dense spikes atop the large deep green foliage beginning in...

Like most root hardy tropical plants, it will be best to establish your plants early in the season so that they can develop a large and vigorous root system before winter sets in. Firecracker Fern is listed as a Texas A&M Outstanding Coastal Plant (see...

Exceptionally dense spikes of 1-1/2" long purple tubular flowers are produced from late summer, throughout winter, and into spring under frost free conditions on this vigorous and unusually shade tolerant Salvia.

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,...

Deep cerise red, widely flaring flowers are produced throughout the warmer months of the year on this taller growing selection of Red Ruellia. Rio Red Ruellia will easily reach 30-40" high and will make a loose groundcover.

Established plants require little additional maintenance once established but may benefit from a light summer shearing. Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M. Who knew you could get such a rich dark purple from Salvia greggii ?! Loads of...

Excellent for hummingbirds! The Red Hot Poker is drought tolerant once well established, has some salt tolerance, and is considered deer resistant. In spring, once the danger of hard frosts and freezes has past, the damaged foliage can be cut back to...