Best Hummingbird Plants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Hummingbirds like specific types of plants to feed on. In today’s show we talk about the characteristics they’re attracted to, as well as a few varieties to try. Connect With Adam Moseley: Adam Moseley is the research and new product developer at Pleasant View Gardens, which is the home of Proven Winners. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone?
0:02.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Adam Mosley is back again. He is the research and new product developer at Pleasant View Gardens, home of proven winners.
0:23.7	Today we're talking about the best qualities in a plant
0:28.3	that attract a hummingbird and some of the varieties
0:32.0	that proven winners has to do the same job.
0:34.8	So Adam, I think at a high level, why would a hummingbird come into the garden?
0:39.3	What is it looking for in a plant that it wants to use.
0:43.0	I'm not a biologist when it comes to the animals, but I mean they need to eat and they are
0:51.0	gracious. They eat something like any times a day they have to eat and they've got a really, really fast metabolism.
0:59.6	They're looking for flowers. They're looking for nectar.
1:01.8	Gotcha.
1:04.0	And then is there, I know at least just from my own observation and I'm definitely not a
1:08.8	biologist by any stretch of the imagination, it seems like they like the sort of trumpet like flowers right
1:16.0	correct yeah and I think I watched this really interesting David Attenborough
1:19.5	hummingbird special not too long ago and and it is it's all about the flower form
1:26.4	being you know difficult for other insects and other things to get into or to find and so a lot of
1:31.9	ways you'll see it be a red color
1:35.2	with a fluted or a trumpet shaped flower form.
1:39.0	Gotcha.
1:39.8	Okay, cool.
1:40.6	Yeah, that makes sense. In the world of proven winners,
1:45.0	what type of plants do you guys have?
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