What should I plant to attract honey bees and humming birds?
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Cuphera,salvia,lantana,coneflowers,liatrus,verbena,coreopsis,bee balm,foxglove,lavender, so many varieties.
Butterfly bushes for butterflies and nepeta for bees
Any small flower, particularly those that have multiple blooms tightly together. Any bells shaped flower. Almost any that smell. Multi-colored blooms. And most important damp, dewy and wet blooms.
A Google search brought up lots of sites to check out. Here's one: http://www.gardeners.com/how-to/attracting-butterflies-hummingbirds/7265.html
Both love my pineapple sage when in bloom. Butterfly bush is good too.
Trumpet Vine for humming birds and bees too.
Honeysuckle!!! Magnolia trees and Lagustrum bushes for starters!! They totally love Honeysuckle!!!
To get ruby throated hummingbirds, I have lots of red throated flowers and I have several feeders near the flowers. I have had very good luck with this arrangement. They are attracted to bright colors especially red. They also like a few dead, or at least leafless areas, or other places where they can sit and guard their territory.
Hang a Hummingbird-Feeder.
Bees attracting flowers
Well I love honeysuckle and jasmine for the colors, aroma, and beauty. So do our little friends. A hanging hummingbird feeder also works well.