Beautiful Varieties Of Fuchsia To Grow In Your Garden To Attract Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are such a pleasure to watch in your garden as they flit from flower to flower, looking for the sweetest nectar to help fuel their busy flight. If you want to attract more of these delightful little birds to your yard, you need to grow flowering plants they'll flock to, like beautiful fuchsia varieties. These have long tubular blooms, which are just the right shape for a hummingbird bill. Apart from attracting hummingbirds, these gorgeous plants will also add some stunning color to your landscape and will become a magnet for other pollinators, such as bees and butterflies. In fact, you can really make your garden pop with this long-lasting, vibrant flowering plant.  

Some of the best varieties for hummingbirds are hardy fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica), California fuchsia (Epilobium canum), lady's eardrops (Fuchsia x hybrida), and honeysuckle fuchsia (Fuchsia triphylla). These lovely blooming plants will undoubtedly attract lots of different nectar-feeding birds to your garden, including those enthralling little hummers. They're relatively low maintenance, and their prolific flowers last from spring right through to the fall to keep the birds well-nourished and happy. As a bonus, these multicolor flowers are perfect for hanging baskets. 

The hardy fuchsia is a deciduous shrub that you can grow in a shady spot in your yard. It will thrive in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 10 right through the warmer months until it dies back when the first frost hits. The California fuchsia is also known as hummingbird trumpet, and for good reason. The little hummers simply adore this variety's tubular red, white, pink, or orange flowers. It's native to the U.S. and can be grown in USDA hardiness zones 8 through 10. This plant is also deciduous and more of a ground cover as it only reaches a height of around 30 inches. It has attractive pale green to silver foliage and masses of blooming stems in summer.

Lady's eardrops is a hybrid fuchsia bred from a mix of four species. It's an annual plant with the most striking blooms in bright pink and purple. It can be grown in USDA hardiness zones 10 through 12 and will flower from spring to fall as long as it's kept well-watered. Another popular hummingbird-attracting species is the honeysuckle fuchsia, which can be grown in USDA hardiness zones 10 through 11. It boasts pretty red or burgundy flowers in spring and summer. These varieties can also be planted in containers so you can position them where visiting hummingbirds can easily find them. In addition, you might want to consider growing fuchsia 'dark eyes' in a hanging basket for a match made in hummingbird heaven.