Plants for Hummingbirds

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• Aesculus pavia

  Spectacular raspberry colored upright panicles in spring

  

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  Aesculus pavia Red buckeye Z 5-8
  Spectacular raspberry colored upright panicles in spring

  Size: 15’ x 10’
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well drained soil- understory tree
  Native: eastern US
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies & feeds hummingbirds
  Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal Plant Award & Missouri Botanic Garden Award of Merit

  Aesculus is a Latin name for a nut bearing tree. Pavia comes from Peter Pav, a Dutch professor at University of Leyden. This plant collected by John Bartram and sent to England by 1711. Jefferson grew this at Monticello, planted in 1798. Nuts from the tree were used by Native Americans to stupefy fish. Chickasaws pulverized the root, placed it in baskets and violently churned the baskets in the river to poison fish. Cherokee Indians carried the nuts in their pockets for good luck, as well as for curing piles and rheumatism. Pounded nuts also cured swelling, sprains, tumors and infections.

• Agastache aurantiaca Navajo sunset Z 5-9

  Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage

  

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  Agastache aurantiaca   Navajo sunset   Z 5-9
  Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage

  Size: 12-18” x 24”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Western US
  Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant

  Published in American Midland Naturalist 1945.

• Agastache rupestris Sunset hyssop Z 5-10

  Tangerine & lilac spikes June - October, fragrant like anise

  

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  Tangerine & lilac spikes June – October, fragrant like anise

  Size: 24”x 10”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil
  Native: SW United States
  Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
  Awards: 1997 Plant Select award recipient.

  First collected by Meriwether Lewis. Introduced to gardens by Edward Greene before 1915.
  The name Agastache is from Greek agan and stachys meaning “much like an ear of wheat” referring to the shape of the flower spike. Rupestris means “rock loving.”

• Alcea rosea var. nigra Black hollyhock BIENNIAL Z 4-9

  Early to late summer spikes of single jet-black/maroon platters.  

  

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  Alcea rosea var. nigra  Black hollyhock BIENNIAL Z 4-9

  Early to late summer spikes of single jet-black/maroon platters.

   

  Size: 5-8’ x 24”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: West Asia
  Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds

  Hollyhocks have been cultivated in China for thousands of years where it symbolized the passing of time. They cooked the leaves for a vegetable and also ate the buds. Transported from Middle East to Europe by the Crusaders and introduced to England by 1573. Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. Culpepper, a 17^th century English herbalist, claimed the plant could be used to cure ailments of the “belly, Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, … the King’s Evil,, Kernels, Chin-cough, Wounds, Bruises, Falls. . . (and) Sun-burning.” Both single and double forms grew in England by the time of Parkinson (1629). Parkinson said they came “in many and sundry colours.” John Winthrop Jr. introduced the 1^st hollyhock to the New World in the 1630’s.

  In the 1880’s Mr. W. Charter of Saffron Walden in England cultivated frilly doubles, now known as ‘Charter’s Doubles.’