Bird Man Mel’s Favorite Plants

PERENNIALS

• Coneflowers (purple & yellow – Native variety) – Finches, Hummingbirds & Butterflies
• American Bittersweet (Native variety) – Bluebirds
• Cardinal Flower (wet areas – Native variety) – Hummingbirds
• Columbine (early bloomer – Native variety ) – Hummingbirds
• New England Aster (Native variety) – Monarch Butterflies & Songbirds
• Butterfly Milkweed (Native variety – Monarch Butterflies, other Butterflies & Pollinators
• Blue False Indigo (Native variety) – Bumble Bees, Birds, Small Mammals
• Ninebark – Pollinators, Birds & Butterflies
• Buttonbush – Butterflies, Songbirds & Beneficial Insects
• Eastern Redbuds – Birds, Bees & Butterflies
• Joe-Pye Weed – Butterflies
• Beebalm – Hummingbirds
• Drop Me Scarlet Honeysuckle – Hummingbirds
• Trumpet Vine – Hummingbirds

ANNUALS

• Cigar Plant – Hummingbirds
• Fuchsia Basket – Hummingbirds
• Penta – Hummingbirds & Butterflies
• Lantana – Hummingbirds
• Cardinal Climber – Hummingbirds
• Impatiens (shade) – Hummingbirds
• Geranium (Red) – Draws in Hummers – Not a great nectar plant
• Coreopsis – Songbirds, some Butterflies
• Salvia (also perennials) – Hummingbirds & Songbirds
• Petunia (only open-throated red ones) – Hummingbirds
• Zinnias (particularly red ones) – Butterflies, Hummingbirds & Songbirds
• Sunflowers – Songbirds