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In those areas, the birds can be attracted by planting things such as firebush, firespike, cuphea and salvia.

The garden’s volunteer propagation team has grown plants for this sale, including salvia, cuphea, plectranthus, California natives, cactus and succulents, fairy garden plants, pelargonium, African basil, bromeliads, and tillandsia.

Other sun-loving hummingbird favorites that look great in combination or solo in a hanging basket are Cuphea, Verbena and Lantana.

Cuphea is a real cutie, featuring a gazillion small, tubular flowers that are produced all season long without deadheading.

Cuphea, in Lythraceæ, 186 Stamens 5–8 or 10, and petals hypogynous, or nearly so.