Gardening to Attract Wildlife

Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds:

• Bee Balm
• Buttercup
• California Fuchsia
• Evening Primrose
• Fireweed
• Lily
• Monkeyflower
• Penstemon
• Phlox
• Wild or Crimson Columbine
• Paintbrush

 Flowers to Attract Caterpillars and Butterflies:

• Buckwheat
• Columbine
• Lupines
• Mallows
• Parley
• Rock-Cress
• Snapdragon
• Sunflower
• Wild Geraniums
• Wild Lilacs
• Ox-eye Daisy
• Goldenrods
• Fleabane

 Flowers, Bushes to attract Birds:

• Pines
• Oaks
• Junipers
• Firs
• Hawthorns
• Roses
• Cosmos
• Evening Primrose
• Hollyhock
• Sunflowers
• Poppies
• Sages
• Beard Tongue
• Penstemon
• Columbines
• Foxgloves
• Lilies
• Yarrows
• Violets

 Provide water, seed, and suet as well.

Make your own nectar.

Hummingbird Nectar (sugar water): 4 parts water to 1 part of white granulated sugar.  Boil water 2-3 minutes then add sugar, never add red dye or honey:

 Butterfly Nectar: 8 parts water to 1 part sugar.

 Oriole Nectar: 6 parts water to 1 part sugar.