Plant the best flowers to attract hummingbirds to your garden, including bright-colored tubular varieties that produce nectar like fuchsia, catmint, and more.

I even snapped a few pictures. Now, I’m finding more in the same fuchsia but this time, they’re much closer to — and sometimes actually on — one of my hummingbird feeders.

Perennials: Hummingbird fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica) never stops blooming. As long as you live in a frost-free zone, you can grow it and although it may defoliate in freezing weather, there is a ...

Emily Green Green’s column appears here every Friday. Photos, from top: Zauschneria in bloom a year after the 2003 wildfire at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles ...

Flower nectar is more nutritious and much safer for our hummingbirds than sugar water from a plastic feeder. Yes, they love sugar water — but like little kids begging for candy, what they love ...

Scroll through the photos -- and some amazing hummingbird facts -- let us know your favorite shot in the comments. (Mine's at the end.) A hummingbird's heart beats an average of 1,260 times per ...

Hummingbird Trumpet, California Fuchsia (Epilobium canum) Type: Shrubby perennial Size: 1–2 feet high x 2–4 feet wide Bloom: July–October, or until first hard frost Water use: Low to moderate ...