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What new plants are you trying this year?

20 years ago

I got my order from High Country Gardens last week! I am trying Silene regia (Royal Catchfly) and Penstemon pseudospectabilis (desert beardtongue). I am so excited that my Salvia penstemonoides and Salvia reptans both came back this year and made it through our winter. However, I finally came to terms and pulled out my Stachys coccinea. It just wasn't doing well in my garden. Too bad as it was eagerly visited by Calliope and Rufous hummers when in bloom. Oh well, win some loose some.

My Agastache cana and Agastache 'Desert Sunrise' are nice full bushy plants this year and growing nicely as are my Penstemon barbatus (which was phenomenal last year)and Penstemon pinifolius. I don't expect the Silene or desert beardtongue to do well in their first year...as most of these native western perennials seem to really jump start the second year.

So, what are you all trying new this year for your hummers?

BN

Comments (6)

  • 20 years ago

    Salvias:
    subrotunda
    'Sierra San Atonio
    'Teresa
    'Purple Majesty'
    'Raspberry Truffle'
    'Van Remsen'

    Agastaches:
    'Desert Sunrise'
    'Double Bubblemint'
    'Tutti Frutti'

    Dwarf Red Buckeye
    Iris Fulva (won't bloom this year)
    Native Columbine (first year to bloom from seed)
    Flowering Red Currant ( still trying to get them rooted but they are leafed out)
    Abutilon (if they root)

    Penny

  • 20 years ago

    It all started last year with a pale orange trumpet vine. Now I'm going nuts expanding my mom's front yard perennial bed into what I hope will be a hummer paradise!

    Here's what's new:

    Perennials:

    Monarda--"Gardenview Scarlet"

    Agastache--"Pink Panther"
    Agastache--"Big Bazooka"

    Lobelia cardinalis--Plain old species ones
    Lobelia cardinalis--"Elmfire" (Burgundy leaves)
    Lobelia speciosa--"Fan Blue"

    Mimulus cardinalis--Planted last fall but not sure survived.

    Fuchsia (sp?)--"Billy Green" (Putting 3 of them in a pot)

    Plus some annuals like...

    Impatiens (Believe it or not, I've never grown them!)
    Salvia coccinea (I think, but it was not labelled)
    Petunias (Red ones, of course!)
    Verbenas (Red with white eyes)
    Ipomoea multifida--Cardinal Climbers started from seeds
    Dianthus chinensis (Some deep magenta ones)

  • 20 years ago

    New this year -

    Hardy perennials:

    Lonicera sempervirens 'Blanche Sandman'
    Agastache rupestris
    Aquilegia x sibirica 'Biedermeier' (Siberian columbines)
    Phlox paniculata 'Starfire'
    Dianthus gratianopolitanus "Cheddar Pinks"
    Salvia nemorosa 'May Night'

    Tender perennials:

    Salvia coccinea 'Hummingbird Red'
    Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red'
    Verbena x hybrida 'Lanai Red'

    Annuals:

    Red petunias
    Snapdragons (wine)

    To come next week from mailorder done awhile ago:

    Crocosmia Lucifer
    Penstemon x mexicali 'Sunburst Ruby'
    Salvia microphylla x greggii 'Red Velvet'
    Salvia guarantica x gesneraeflora 'Purple Majesty'

    I just ran out of containers (and room for them)! :-o

  • 20 years ago

    Bouvardia............highly recommended by the Garden Center I frequent often.

  • 20 years ago

    I'm trying so many new things this year I don't know if I can list them all! I started last Fall changing my big vegetable garden over to a hummingbird-butterfly garden. These are what I've added so far.

    Vines

    Honeysuckle - Scarlet Dropmore
    Cross Vine- Tangerine Beauty

    Perennials

    Penstemon - several different kinds
    Lobelia - Ruby Slippers
    Verbascum
    Clary Sage

    Shrubs
    Variegated Weigela
    Wine and Roses Weiglea

    Annuals

    Lady in Red Salvia
    Forrest Fire Salvia
    Shrimp PLant
    Cigar Plant
    Hanging Basket of Million Bells
    Mr President Canna
    Nicotiana
    Cleome
    Scarlet Snapdragons
    Ipomopsis

    I am trying to make this place a hummer heaven!!! I just spotted my first hummer of the season last evening. She didn't touch a flower but just briefly flew into some green vines that hang on the overgrown shrubs behind a fence at the back of my yard. I wonder if she was gathering webs for a nest or something.

  • 20 years ago

    dianthus (red and white)
    moning glory (red and blue)
    million bells (red)
    ipomopsis hummingbird mix
    i relly wish i could get coral honeysuckle

    the one i am trying will hummers like theam

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