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Attract butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden by selecting the best plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds from Hummingbird Gardens hummingbird and butterfly annual garden flowers. 

 

    

 

Cleome spinosa 'Violet'

(Spider Flower)

 

Annual.  3'-5' tall, topped with huge stunning 3"-6" rich deep violet flower clusters with spidery stamens; palm-like leaves.  New blooms daily from June to frost.  Flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds! 

 

 

Cosmos bipinnatus

(Red Cosmos Dazzler)

 

3'-5' annual.  Unique blunt-tipped 4" true red daisies with dazzling yellow centers.  Airy, delicate foliage.  Prefers well-drained soil and full sun.  Attracts butterflies, favorite nectar plant of Monarch and Painted Lady!

 

 

Coreopsis tinctoria red

(Red Dwarf Coreopsis)

 

3'-5' annual.  Unique blunt-tipped 4" true red daisies with dazzling yellow centers.  Airy, delicate foliage.  Prefers well-drained soil and full sun.  Attracts butterflies, favorite nectar plant of Monarch and Painted Lady!

 

 

 

Gomphrena haageana 'Strawberry Fields'

(Globe Amaranth)

 

$6.95

Annual.  Full sun.  18" tall.  True red 1"-1-1/2" blooms appear at the tops of long, olive-green stems.  Blooms summer into fall.  Attracts butterflies! 

 

 

Heliotropium arborescens 'Marine'

(Heliotrope)

 

 

$5.99

Annual.  Grows 10"-14" tall and wide.  Full sun to partial shade.  Zones 3-11.  Nicely compact, produces 6" deep violet blue flowers scented vanilla.  Broadly oval to lance-shaped wrinked leaves tinged with purple.  Attracts butterflies! 

 

 

Ipomoea lobata

(Spanish Flag)

 

 

  

$5.95

Annual vine.  Grows 15' tall with arching sprays of crimson tubular flowers that fade to butter yellow.  Rich, bronzey-purple new growth turns deep green with age.  Full sun to partial shade.  Blooms late summer into early fall. Attracts bess, butterflies, and hummingbirds!

 

 Ipomoea quamoclit

(Cypress Vine)

 

 

Annual.  15'-20' twining vine with finely cut leaves and star-shaped red flowers.  Blooms late spring into early fall.  Zones 5b-11.  Sun or partial shade.  One of the best plants for attracting hummingbirds; also attracts bees and butterflies! 

 

 

Ipomoea sloteri

(Cardinal Climber)

 

 

Annual climber, grows 10'-15' with finely-cut emerald green foliage.  Masses of bright red trumpet-shaped flowers from early summer to frost.  Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! 

Leonitis nepetifolia

(Wild Klip Dagga Leonitis)

 

$5.49 

 

Erect, loosely branched annual, reaching 8' in height with strongly angled stems.  Orange, tubular, furry, 1" flowers curve downward and are borne in rounded, spiney clusters 2"-4" across encircling the stem.  Triangular leaves with coarsely toothed margins, grow in pairs opposite each other.  Full sun to partial shade.  Zones 8-11.  A hummingbird magnet! 

 

 

Lobelia erinus 'Regatta'

Lobelia

 

 

Trailing annual.  6"-8" tall and wide.  Full sun to partial shade.  Bushy, flowers early, covered with small fan-shaped flowers from summer until fall.  Attracts hummingbirds! 

 

Ptilotus exaltus

(Ptilotus Joey)

 $2.50

This exciting plant is an Australian native and a member of the amaranthus family.  It continuously produces 3-4" long conical spikes of feathery flowers which open glistening with an iridescent sheen of neon pink and silver and gradually darken to neon pink close to the tips.  The gorgeous blooms are set off beautifully against the unique lush silver-green to blue-green 12-16" foliage. 

 
Salvia coccinea 'Forest Fire' 

$4.95 

 

Hummingbird magnet!  Showy native with dark reddish-black calyces and fiery ember-red colored flowers.  Annual.  Full sun.  Blooms mid-summer to frost. 

Zinnia elegans

(California Giant Zinnia) 

 

Annual.  Grows 36"-48" tall.  Large 4"-6" flowers bloom from early summer through fall until first frost.  Prefers rich, deep, well-drained soil.  Attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies (from large swallowtails to fast-flying skippers).