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I was just up at my Parents house and my Dad wants to add a Hummingbird garden.
They have put up a feeder for several years but don’t get a lot of action. They do see some hummers from time to time but not a lot. The area they are looking at would be about 16 ft long and come out maybe 8ft. There is a very old Lilac and several privet hedges planted there. We are going to pull out the privets leave the lilac or replace it with a new one and add a butterfly bush. I know that hummers love cannas so they will be planted in there and I told Dad if he wants to build a trellis we could add Trumpet vine.
They will have a feeder in this garden as well.
My questions is not just what plants the hummers will like but what is the quickest way to get them into this garden. What are the first plants that will bloom and draw them in.
Their house is in Zone 6B and I would like to try and keep as much of the garden Zone appropriate but I can add a few plants that will need to be dug up and over wintered. And I was wondering if some of the more tropical vines could be started in the house in pots and placed in the garden to give an earlier food source to more quickly lure the hummers in?
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