The Three Best Native California Plants for Hummingbirds!

Everyone loves hummingbirds! Whether you are new to native plants and planning a new hummingbird garden, or are an expert native plant gardener who is looking for a few new ideas, we've got some great plants for you that our California hummingbirds will love.

[@kristinesiu]

This is the most I learned from all the youtube videos I searched for hummingbirds. Thanks.

[@susankrzywicki]

That was great!

[@RVBadlands2015]

Indigo, love your channel I assisted my sister taking out her grass and put in a native garden to attract birds, butterflies and pollinators.

[@rimasingh6679]

I get all my plants from Las Pilitas nursery. They mail the plants to my door. The founder of that nursery has done California natives a great favor by establishing the website. I was so delighted when a hummingbird took over an epilobium. I wish I’d known to grow native plants instead of buying no-smell foreign stuff. This is such a good video.

[@katallen4021]

Thanks for mentioning the hookers evening primrose, it does like to spread its seed. But, not only do hummingbirds love it, the lesser goldfinches swarm it, eating the abundant seeds.

[@teaceremony2460]

Great plants, great tips, thank you

[@ItTolls4Thee]

In summary
Winter bloomers,
1. Chaparral currant, Ribes malvaceum (winter bloomer 1, very large shrub)
2. Fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, Ribes speciosum (winter bloomer 2, covered in horrible thorns and looks dead for most of the year)
3. Great berried Manzanita, Arctostaphylos glauca (flowers in late winter, range is chaparral greater than 600 m, very large shrub)
4. Island snapdragon, Gambelia speciosa (balloons in early spring, yard friendly, extended bloom)
5. Manzanita, how are Howard McMinn and point Reyes species are yard friendly
Spring bloomers, these look great in spring, plant in groups of three or more, look dead the rest of the year.
6. Monkeyflower, does not tolerate typical watering schedules
7. Hummingbird sage, Salvia spathacea
8. Heart-leaved Penstemon, Keckiella cordifolia
9. Woolly bluecurls, Tricostema lanatum
10. Native salvia, like a Cleveland sage
Summer bloomers
11. Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis
12. Western Columbine
13. Baja fairy duster, can grow to be large, low maintenance
Fall bloomers
14. California fuchsia, Epilobium canum, best native flowers for hummingbirds, the more some they get the more they will bloom
15. Hooker's evening primrose, large and untidy with yellow blooms.
Best overall
1. Island snapdragon
2. Native sages
3. California fuchsia
Followed by
4. Baja fairy duster
5. Hooker's evening primrose
6. Monkeyflower
Runners up
7. Chaparral currant
8. Fuchsia-flowered gooseberry
9. Great berried Manzanita

[@dh2950]

Thank you!

[@cactusray3368]

I have the hardy varieties of Epilobium canum in my northern Nevada garden. They are by far the best hummingbird plant in the garden and I have several. Their bloom time is late July through September, which corresponds exactly with the southward migration of the Rufous Hummingbird in my area.

[@danmobile]

Thank you so much for this video. I had never cared at all about native or local plants before but recently moved to the coast and thought I should look into it. After watching your video I started keeping my eyes out and have seen quite a few of these locally, including plenty of the monkey flower and hooker's evening primrose plants. I harvested some seeds from a Primrose nearby and will try to get the monkey flower seeds, too!
Finding these plants in the wild is like a Pokemon game to me now.

[@danielduncan8035]

Great video! I encourage everyone who loves hummingbirds to look up “Rides speciosum /espalier-trained “. When trained against a wall, they take up much less space and they look amazing! My favorite hummingbird flower is San Miguel savory. I used to grow them in hanging pots. They would cascade down about 5’ and were covered head to toe with tiny white flowers. They looked beautiful and my hummers loved them!

[@jujubee7351]

Informative video! Thank you

[@LindaOsier]

great video. Learned a lot.

[@beautifulheart7]

Awesome thanks so much!

[@gabrielg.2401]

Wonderful video. Thanks!

[@Lacamina5]

Awesome

[@sgalcee]

Thank youuuuuuuuu

[@jenifersatyashapiro2322]

This is beautiful Indigo! TY!

[@jclaer]

Hummingbirds loved my salvia but then bees discovered it too and the hummers seemed to go more to the feeder. A Hawaiian told me that some bees will bite into flowers to get the pollen. I wonder if that’s what is happening here. Is there a bee resistant flower?

[@gemmrk]

They were created with the hummingbirds not evolved

[@indigobrude]

😂

[@PlayerPunisher]

@@indigobrude bruh 😂😂😂

[@chouette5149]

Found this information very easy to understand and practical - thank you!