Hey friends it is an exciting time here in Dallas North Carolina do you know why it's
exciting because the hummingbirds have returned back home it is fantastic I am a huge fan of my
Hummers as I call them and so today is Monday we were Saturday at the nursery we had already
closed and Jerry saw the first one then we were sitting out here yesterday Sunday and Mr Hummer
came up to the feeder that I had not filled up yet I know and was just looking for his food so
today what I am going to do is I am going to share with you some great plants to attract hummingbirds
to your garden we're going to talk about all things Hummers and I have got three pots right
here that we are going to put together to help attract hummingbirds to your garden these pots
I have in my head that they would be grouped together and they would be placed as a group
of Trio anywhere on a patio a deck you know in the garden whatever but these plants will
work together to attract the hummingbirds to your garden so we here on the east of the Mississippi
we only get one hummingbird and that is our beloved ruby red throated hummingbird and it
seems like the boys come first and so that's what we have right now but hummingbirds are attracted
to really bright bright colors especially like your Reds your oranges your purples those because
they can see in ultraviolet colors so that is what we're going to go with it just so happens
that hummingbirds like bright orange and purple I mean I can't help that those are clumps and
colors but they are so that is going to be kind of the theme for today my three Planters we're going
to start with really great potting soil this is the proven Winter's potting soil it's the
only one that I use in my containers because it is extremely high quality the manufacturer that
makes our professional mixes makes The Proven Winners also lots of good age pine bark finds
in here it retains water but it also helps drain relatively quickly so it doesn't hold
on to water so all I have done is simply filled in these three containers all the way full with
The Proven Winners potting soil now it does have the proven winter potting soil does have their
time release fertilizer in there but these plants that we're going to put in here are very heavy
feeders and I'm just going to supplement just a little bit for all three of these containers
your time release fertilizer is released by temperature so as the temperatures go up the
more food it releases here in the South where I am I find that about after three months you need
to refresh once your plants are in there you can just make sure your plants are dry shake it in
there use your plants around and that food will fall down into your soil and do nicely so every
time it rains or you water then it is feeding the plants now I know for the new Gardener you may be
going Jenny why in the world did you just add more fertilizer like you're going to over fertilize
your plants why did you just do that and I say this with the most love and truly like love in my
heart we have been doing these pots like this way for 10 11 12 years and this works really well for
us here in the South where I am I have never had a problem and this is time release I am not shocking
these plants with massive amounts of fertilizer at one time I am not over feeding them I am not going
to burn their Roots this is a nice time release slow release fertilizer so we are good to go
three pots same color different sizes so in little bitty over here what we're going to do is we're
going to use caliber colors so caliber cobras are wonderful attractors for hummingbirds this
happens to be the Super Bells Coral sun which is a nice beautiful it'll depend on what you
pair it with but it has a yellow throat meaning the inside of the flower is yellow and then the
outer edges that's where it's going to kind of depend on your color palette it could go peach or
it could go more orange so we're going to go more orange because of what we're going to pair it with
and I'm going to put it here in the middle of the pot now this is a small pot I am only going to use
one grande size superbell and that will fill in really nicely I know at this moment it may seem
a little bit small but I promise again knowing these plants and know how they grow we're only
going to put the one plant in here and it's going to fill in not only fill in but it'll Trail over
all the plants today can go both into the landscape or a container the only kind of
caveat would be your super Bill unless you have really sandy well-draining soil these do better
in containers because they hate wet feet so we've got the super Bales Coral Sun nice yellow vibrant
peachy orange blooms on it's going to fill in and spill over my medium-sized pot we are going to put
in the number one hummingbird attractor plant in my opinion and I'm going to fill it in a little
bit more this is my beloved vermillionaire vermillionaire is a type of kufia and or
firecracker plants like people will call them firecracker plants this thing the hummingbirds go
absolutely nuts over this plant it is a wonderful plant for the container it is a wonderful plant
for the landscape in both the landscape and the container it has more of an open Airy kind of a
Whimsical look to it and kind of a spiky think of like firecrackers right firecrackers shooting and
it's all out there and Whimsical so that is what it is but you have these gorgeous ultraviolet neon
orange colored flowers on them and they're tubular so it's very nice and easy for the hummingbirds
to get their little beaks into this plant because some people will think well that's
not very much of you know of a flower because it's not big like a petunia and that is true but
hummingbirds bumblebees honeybees love this plant you'll notice I had two plants and I am planting
them as one so I kind of made a big bit of a bigger hole and planted them in there together
I just bulks up my container if I was planting this really to go like long term from now which
is the first of April all the way through November I would have just put one plant I want to attract
as many hummingbirds quickly as I can so I went ahead and put two in there so kufia another great
plant to attract your hummingbirds next petunias this is supertunas royal velvet nice gorgeous
rich rich purple color I mean we've got purple and orange right here together and it is a fantastic
combo not only for you know our beloved Clemson Tigers but also to attract the hummingbirds
again I'm going to do a little over packing on this particular container because I want it nice
and full and this Royal Velvet is going to do it for me now at this exact moment
it may look that the royal velvet is going to be taller than your kuthia you just got to wait right
so your petunias are going to get anywhere from 6 to 12 inches tall in a container you're going to
go on the shorter side and then the vermillionaire is going to be like 18 inches so just be patient
as far as getting your height difference that will come and I am going to go ahead and put
two in there because you put one absolutely again depends on what your intent is when you
are planting your containers I am going for kind of that instant wow factor for my hummingbirds so
I am putting two of each so there we go another little trick for you is to take your tags and
just slide them down into the pot where you don't see them so that way one like here at the nursery
like I could have them that way so our customers could see oh well that's kufia the vermillionaire
and that's Royal Velvet so I'll go find those or if you're like me as a gardener sometimes
when you get to the end of the season you're like now what was that plant and you can pull
out and you have it right there for you so super Bales Coral Sun then we've got the vermillionaire
fantastic one and then the supertunia Royal Velvet so already we have got three different
plants right so we've got a caliber KOA petunia and acoustia now my biggest container over here we
um you're going to use your imagination and dream with me of how this is going to look when it is
all said and done we are going to use another petunia so this is supertunia Bordeaux this is a
great plant extremely popular because it has that beautiful bi-color of the purple the throat is
really really nice and dark and then as the edges come out it turns to a really nice lavender shade
in the back we're going to use a Salvia salvias are wonderful to attract hummingbirds to your
garden whether it's an annual or a perennial this one is The Rock and deep purple the
improved one and it is a annual for me it'll be a perennial in zones 9 to 11. so in those hot zones
now in years past I probably would not recommend rocking Deep Purple to go into
a container because in the past it was really kind of Wild and Woolly it was the
um the one that was the most I don't want to say out of control but it kind of was out of control
and I just didn't think it it looked very nice and neat and tidy in a pot well Proven Winners
picked up on that as well and they went ahead and improved this sweet thing so this is the rocking
Deep Purple improved last year we trialed this I had it in the wheelbarrow and I also had it in the
landscape so much more well-behaved nice tighter habit on it darker flowers more abundant flowers
on it hummingbirds go nuts over this thing I have two buds I don't have any blooms so that's where
I say you got to use your imagination and this will get nice and tall and really full so this
is going to be my one that is going to be the tallest and is going to be the most full that
is why I put it in this big pot so I'm going to take my Bordeaux and my Bordeaux is small
right now as well as a grower Nursery right so we bring in our plants at various times through the
the growing season you may if you've watched our videos you know that we bring in plants and shifts
the royal velvet was the first round of annuals we got and this selection of Bordeaux is more
on the latter side and so that's why Bordeaux is a little bit smaller right now than Royal Velvet
it's just the age of the plant it is not what it's going to do in maturity so just imagine that your
Bordeaux is nice and full and spilling over just like the royal velvet is right now and though even
more so we'll have nice dark Rich purple flowers of the Salvia that pairs with the royal velvet
a nice lighter shade of purple of the Super Junior Bordeaux the orange
of the vermillionaire and the orange and the yellow of the um the superintendo's coral Sun
so what are the growing requirements for these sweet things well you want to have full sun so
full sun it means at least five to six hours of good direct sun and these are all going to be
moderate Drinkers and they're going to be moderate feeders meaning because it's in a container you're
going to have to water it this time of year not so much because you're getting rain it's cooler
temperatures as the season progresses though you're really going to have to probably water
it every day and just depends on how high your temperatures are you may have to water it twice
a day so that is just a thought now I have one more trick though to share with you about how
to keep your containers nice and nourished and keep that moisture under control in there so
my last little trick for you and again if you're a regular here at Garden Creekside you know this
is not new or Earth shattering but I have a bag of land and sea it got busted open at the nursery and
I was like oh darn I guess Jimmy's just going to have to use that bag of land and sea so I
like to top dress the containers with a really nice high quality compost like the land and sea
why do I do that well it insulates the roots it helps retain moisture and it helps prevent any
kind of like weed germination because weed seeds blow in the wind right and so sometimes even in
your pots you can get that Rogue weed and so this really helps plus it brings great nutrition to The
Container so just come through do a very nice little light coating of the compost in there
and it will do great now do you have to use these exact plants or these exact colors no you don't um
and in fact if you stay tuned till the end of the video I'm going to have some graphics up there of
all the different kinds of annuals that will help attract hummingbirds so not only the annuals I'm
going to give you a list of perennials and shrubs so adding these plants to your garden of course
just attracts those hummingbirds and keeps them nice and well fed throughout the growing season if
you are like me and you want to use plants and to provide feeders for your hummingbirds the easiest
way to is to make your own hummingbird food super simple y'all it is like one part of water to no
yeah one part sugar to four parts water in my brain is one cup of water to a fourth of a cup
of sugar there you go if you again like me in the summertime and your Hummers are eating you
out of house and home I will make a nice big kind of a bulk container of it and just keep it in the
fridge that way when I need it I pull it out and I fill up my feeders and all is well now
one of our very first videos that we ever filmed and it was the first video that actually Proven
Winners ran of hours was the infamous container of vermillionaire with the lemon Coral sedum
so I didn't have a petunia with it because I love the contrast of that chartreuse really
bright vibrant green of the lemon Coral Sedum so I still had vermillionaire in the back and then
lemon Coral in the front and if you've grown lemon Coral you know that it too will spill
over it was a stunning container people loved that video so I will link it so you can watch
it just remember that was one of our very first videos that we did for YouTube very first one for
Proven Winners so it does have some sentimental value for us but that was a couple of years ago
the thing is it's like we want to plant our Gardens with a diversity of plants so not only
do we attract hummingbirds to our Gardens but that we attract pollinators and then birds all sorts of
God's Little Creatures in our Gardens because that if you have a really diverse ecosystem in
your garden that means you have a healthy garden and that is what we are going for so just remember
when you're picking out plants if you are looking to attract those hummingbirds you want really nice
bold colors because they see in ultraviolet you want to have a bloom where they can get
in there and really enjoy the nectar like this vermillionaire the petunias even though there are
totally two different types of flour familiar in there being very tight petunias calibercoas being
more upright I'm like open the hummingbirds love them both we get hummingbirds in the nursery all
the time like in the greenhouses because they're going for the hanging baskets of the petunias and
the calibrachoas so they absolutely love them be on the lookout for your Hummers I know there is
like a migratory map that you can look and it will tell you like where people spot them and coming up
of course we are in the Piedmont just outside of Charlotte so it was April 1st that we had our very
first hummingbird I know we have some friends just south of us a great customer of ours Miss Pack she
is about an hour south of us she has seen hers a couple of days ahead of of us so if you're north
of us they're coming your way very very exciting hope you have found this fun and informative
stay tuned for those Graphics because they are great information and as always thanks so much
for grinding with Creekside y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends