Hummingbird Flower Garden Design

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Hummingbird flower garden design. Use the design as is or modify it to fit your unique garden space. Hummingbird gardens need not be large even a flower box or trellis will do. Also gone are a bunch of plants that were just plain old tired and ugly replaced by plants and flowers that attract hummingbirds butterflies and bees.

Single flowers those with one ring of petals around a central disc provide more nectar and pollen than pompom shaped double flowers. Keep gardens blooming and feeders filled. Think vertically when planning your hummingbird garden.

Making hummingbird garden plans is easy fun and rewarding for any gardener and hummingbird lover. How to make a hummingbird garden design. Hummingbird habitat and butterfly garden design we got rid of an old splintery deck and water thirsty lawn.

There are dozens of flowers that can attract hummingbirds but some flowers are better at enticing these flying jewels than others. Hummingbirds can consume 100 of their body s weight in sugar water or nectar every day in addition to as many as 2 000 tiny insects. Pacific northwest homeowners are often delighted to discover anna s hummingbirds overwintering in their garden a time of year when the blooms of oregon grape mahonia spp become an important food source for them this evergreen shrub has holly like leaves and yellow shuttlecock type flowers in winter that are followed by edible blue berries.

Gardens planted exclusively with hummingbird plants will attract more birds but even a few choice plants added to existing gardens will feed some hummers. The hummingbird garden design below was designed using the major wheeler trumpet honeysuckle as the feature plant on a post pole obelisk sturdy trellis shepherd hook or other form of support surrounded by the companion plants that were shown above.