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 BUTTERFLY & HUMMINGBIRD PLANTS

 

Hummingbird Gardens is a unique iris mail order nursery and hummingbird and butterfly plant nursery that grows and propagates most of the perennial plants it sells.  Hummingbird Gardens prefers to do things the old-fashioned way instead of mass producing with harsh chemicals and growth regulators.  Each plant is lovingly tended by hand from the moment the seed is planted until delivered to the customer's garden.  Hummingbird Gardens is a small nursery in a suburb of Sacramento, California.  Although Hummingbird Gardens does not have a retail outlet at this time, plants can be purchased through the website and shipped quickly to your garden.  Hummingbird Gardens provides free delivery to customers located within 10 miles. Hummingbird Gardens hopes to provide gardening enthusiasts butterfly and hummingbird plants as well as new and unusual annuals, perennials, designer daylilies, grasses, tall bearded irises, intermediate bearded irises, standard dwarf bearded irises, reblooming tall bearded irisesperennials, roses, shrubs, trees, vines, organic herbs, and organic vegetables.

 

Each seed is planted by hand, one at a time, in a hand-prepared soilless mix.  Every plant is watered individually and fed with only natural fertilizers.  Hummingbird Gardens practices chemical-free gardening.  Many of our flowers, herbs, and vegetables are grown organically in 4" paper pots formed from recycled materials.  This encourages larger, healthier root systems, and assures you that our plants will flourish in your garden.

 

 

These paper pots:

  • Help to reduce non-recyclable plastics.
  • Help to reduce municipal waste.
  • Are biodegradable and are planted directly into the soil with the plant.
  • Ensure no transplant shock.
  • Fully decompose.
  • Ensure plants avoid stress.
  • Are convenient and time-saving.
  • Are permeable to air and water.  (This means there are more root tips resulting in better root 

                   structure.)

  • Are easily penetrated by the tender, young roots.  (This allows for unrestricted root growth

                  which leads to healthier roots and stronger plants.)

 

A Note About Ordering

 

 

Hummingbird Gardens' shopping cart is secured by PayPal.  When you pay online through a well-known ecommerce payment provider such as PayPal, you can be assured there are safeguards and guarantees in place.

 

When you have found the iris or irises you absolutely MUST ADD to your garden, be sure to order early because some of the irises are in limited supply.  Irises are ready for shipment from the end of July through August.

 

Daylilies are shipped bareroot from April through July and September through October. 

 

Roses will also ship bareroot in the fall.

 

 

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LOCAL GARDENERS:

 

Save the cost of shipping, give us a call to make

 

arrangements for free delivery (within ten miles)!

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Favorite Garden Quotes:

 

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.  --Luther Burbank

 

*An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. --Author Unknown

 

*God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. --Author Unknown

 

*If you have a garden and a  library, you have everything you need. --Cicero

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Hummingbird Gardens
718 Kaley Lane
Rio Linda, California 95673
(916) 991-3128