Plants That I'm Wanting MOST This Year || Hummingbird Haven PART 2
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I love that you name your gardens. 😁
Thank you! I find it fun and it helps me stay organized. :)
I love your selection of plants for HH. Hummingbirds are one of my all times favorite birds. But, all of the perennials I planted to attract them have not quite established. I have not quit yet so thanks for sharing this video. Btw, I planted many verbena canadensis ‘homestead purple’ and they were a hit with hummingbird moths and butterflies last Summer! 🦋
That's the one I used to have: Homestead Purple Verbena!! Mine drew in the butterflies so so well, but my plants only lived for a couple years, maybe 3 max...how long do yours live? I either need to just make sure I add some every year or figure out which variety will self seed.
@ I planted them by the end of Spring last year. I needed ground covers that took lots of Sun on a dry spot and they worked so well. We’ll see how they do this year.
This should be a fun series! Lots of good plants. Here 2 states above you, I have seen hummingbirds on my kniphophia (orange and red colors), and oddly some old fashioned hosta that shoot up the tall white bell shaped flowers in mod summer. I've planted many red bell shaped flowers last season so hopefully I will have more visits by those cute little guys, lol. Good luck!
Oh yeah, I saw a hummingbird use my hosta a few years ago! I totally forgot about that. They love Coral Honeysuckle, which is the vine near the end of the video. It's a great plant. Not sure if it's native or hardy for your area. Might be! I also added some Cardinal Flower in my side garden. It's about the only place that gets some sun and still gets decent moisture off the house's downspouts. I hope they do well. Checked on them the other day, and the rosette of leaves is still there. I didn't know they were visible in winter! :O
@awildapproach * right. I've got Cardinal Flower, but for some reason I haven't seen any hummingbirds on it yet. Funny you mention that, yesterday I was throwing out an idea to make a big patch of it in between my house and my neighbor because I believe in the cardinal flower. I love the coral honeysuckle! I have one that's only a year old and it is native in Indy. I'm making a large trellis for it this year to climb on. Is a superstar and I'll bet they come visit when I put that up!
@@HoosierDaddy_ Oh yeah! They will most definitely visit that vine after it fills in. My my my, they love that vine. As for your cardinal flower, I've seen some growing along the creek at a nearby park. It seems it can handle some seasonal drought even though it prefers wet feet. I've heard they don't like leaf mulch on them. They like to be exposed. They may even like a little disturbance, since they seem to love growing on creek banks. Good luck! :)
@awildapproach * thanks! You too!
I've been hoping to add a bigger pond area this year too! Also to expand my shade garden areas. I'm excited about all the woodland plants I'll be putting in there. I also think I've saved enough to buy a larger Washington Hawthorn from a nearby nursery and I'm excited about that.
I love that color palette for the new hummingbird garden.
That's exciting! I love shade loving plants. They are some of the prettiest ones.
As for Washington Hawthorn, that's fantastic! Mine is an odd little tree. The top is very tree like, but the bottom is acting as a shrub. Maybe it doesn't know which shape it wants yet. I've heard they can be grown as a hedge / shrub or as a tree form. Are you doing the tree form?
Thanks! There are so many plants to move to that garden from the future pond area that I'm going to be lucky if all the plants fit!! :O
@@awildapproach I was planning on getting a 'Winter King' Hawthorn, and it's already a pretty tall tree form with one main trunk. I didn't know they tended to sucker like that!
I know, it's so bittersweet to start running out of room in the garden! At first it felt like I'd never fill it up lol
@@paragraph_designs Right? So true. I do still have an L-shaped area that needs filled, thank goodness, but it's a very very harsh environment. Very very hot, sunny, dry, and it's behind a concrete block retaining wall (and also raised up because of that retaining wall). I need only the toughest plants for there...even some plants I thought were tough are struggling there...any suggestions appreciated. I need salt tolerant shrubs for that L shape, too, because my neighbor has a salt water pool that has leaked many times.
@@paragraph_designs I forgot to reply to the Hawthorn part. These aren't suckers so much as they are very low short little branches. I need to do a video about it or something...never had a plant grow like it.
@ oh I see what you mean about the Hawthorn. I planted a black gum that is kind of growing like that.
For your L Shape dry garden, I have a few suggestions (but I don't have a lot of personal experience with dry gardens, so grain of salt!): Purple Love Grass, Tennessee Coneflower, Liatris microcephala (I'm growing these from seed this year), Phlox subulata, Eastern Prickly Pear, Mohr's Rosinweed, Split Beard Bluestem, yucca filamentosa, Antennaria species, Bird-foot violet, Bigelowia nutallii, Dicentra eximia (those last two might be harder to find). Showy Evening Primrose is also a good one - you can find seeds at Lowes - but I've heard it will really take over.
I love your color coded spreadsheet! I made a color coded list with the font different colors for different flowers, but the calendar bloom bubbles are definitely superior. I want to find a good way too to incorporate the proportions of plants that I have in the different plant families. On the plants, I grow both common camas and great camas and they are wonderful plants -- mostly attracting bumblebees. I've tried to grow two species of native delphiniums, and they rotted sadly. I put down seeds too, but they need like a crazy amount of cold stratification and they've never come up so I may be just have wasted the seeds 🤷? They remain on my wish list, I read that bees can actually use them for medicine (their nectar is like antifungal or something)?
That's amazing info! I had no idea. As for the cold stratification, it sounds like a great candidate for fridge cold moist stratification strategies. :) Maybe get some vermiculite or perlite and moisten it and sprinkle the larkspur seeds in there and keep in the fridge at least the required cold time frame they need. I do fear that with climate change some of our natives will have to have human help via a fridge. Which is sad and important to think about... :( I'm glad you enjoyed the spreadsheet! Maybe try to grow the larkspurs in pots for better drainage? I'm glad you mentioned it, because it means I can try pots and in ground to see which is better for them here. Happy gardening!
@awildapproach I think I will need to get a dedicated stratification fridge, I already store a lot of my seeds in the refrigerator and I think my boyfriend might get frustrated if I then also started putting random bags of perlite in there too (especially if it were to spill lol) 😂. I think I will try again with the delphiniums after I've got some more hummus built up; I've since learned that one of the species I planted was not quite right for my ecoregion too. I've had better success for my bumble bees with penstemon, those require good drainage but they don't seem nearly as finicky (if you find the right species, I think I've found two that tolerate my clay soil well). I think hummingbirds might like those as well, I heard they like the red flowered ones at least. They also like the flowers of Ribes (currants, where I am we grow the red flowering currant but there may be an appropriate one for your area).
@@Hayley-sl9lm I also would love to do a dedicated stratification fridge. I used to have a mini fridge, but that one broke down. So now I'm taking up a whole bottom fridge drawer LOL! Great info you're sharing there. Great idea on building up some hummus, too. I did that with a compost pile I had, which I have recently removed and planted pipevine for the pipevine swallowtails. Those plants love more hummusy soils. :) Have fun with all of your planting and planning!
I'm looking forward to planting more whorled milkweed to try and attract some monarchs. It's the only milkweed I've been successful with.
That's one of the ones I want to try here. I think it would be a good fit for my garden.
@@awildapproach They grew well from seed the first year. But they don't bloom until the second year apparently. But even without the bloom I still saw monarch cats on them.
@@tugweltp That's great to hear! I'm adding it to my list.
I’m winter sowing some Delphinium virescens, a close cousin to the one native to your area except mine is white instead of blue.
Oooh that sounds pretty! I'll look that one up.
What's the plant at 9:06?
Arrowwood Viburnum - Viburnum dentatum
I wish to have phlox but rabbits are brutal. I have only one in the pot on the porch.
Great idea on the phlox in the pot!! One of my strategies is to temporarily protect the small young plants they like to munch until the plants grow larger. But it also depends on how much rabbit pressure there is.