Top 8: Best Flowers for Attracting Hummingbirds

1. Trumpet Honeysuckle

• Perennial Vine
• Blooms May to August
• Red tubular-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 20 Feet, on support (such as arbor or trellis), can also be used as ground cover
• Needs full sun, moist soil
• Flowers give way to red berries in late summer, early fall

2.  Cardinal Flower

• Perennial
• Blooms July to September
• Red tubular-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 6 feet
• Needs part to full sun, moist to wet soil

3. Bee Balm

• Perennial
• Blooms July to August
• Clusters of Red tubular-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 5 feet
• Needs part to full sun, moist to wet soil

4. Trumpet Creeper

• Perennial Vine
• Blooms June to September
• Large orange/red trumpet-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 30 feet on support (such as arbor or trellis), often climbs trees in wild
• Needs full sun (for productive blooms), dry to moist soil
• Very aggressive vine

5. Jewelweed

• Annual (but self-seeds)
• Blooms June to August
• Orange trumpet-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 4 feet
• Needs shade, moist to wet soil

6.  Wild Bleeding Heart

• Perennial
• Blooms April to October
• Pink heart-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 2 feet
• Needs shade, moist soil

7.  Red Columbine

• Perennial
• Blooms from April to June
• Red bell-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 2 feet
• Needs part shade, moist soil

8. Great Blue Lobelia

• Perennial
• Blooms August to October
• Blue/purple tubular-shaped flowers
• Grows up to 3 feet
• Needs part sun, moist soil