HUMMINGBIRDS AS PETS

DON’T HAVE TO WALK A BIRD--Watching hummingbirds flit through your garden is an enjoyable pastime. Succulents and almost any aloe will attract them, but there is an assortment of cactus and perennial plants that will bring them in too. The list below published in San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles magazine from the plant palette at Waterwise Botanicals in Escondido, CA should help you invite these precious visitors to your landscape or garden.

Cactus

Hesperaloe parviflora

Tricholobivia hybrid

Daylilies

Kniphofia uraria

Lilies

Alstromeria Meyers hybrid

 Common Lantana camara attract hummingbirds

Perennials

Ajuga reptans ‘Black Scallop’

Anigozanthus hybrid

Centranthus

Gaura lindheimeri

Heuchera sanguinea

Lantana camara

Lavandula angustifolia

Lavandula stoechas

Lobelia laxiflora

Nepeta

Pelargonium

Penstemon

Salvia chiapensis

Salvia greggii

Salvia leucantha

Salvia microphylla

Salvia ‘Waverly’

Stokesia laevis

Source:

Waterwise Botanicals

32183 Old Highway 395

Escondido, CA 92026

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waterwisebotanicals.com

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