The Gardens Built to Keep Hummingbirds Coming Back

Across the great lawns and border gardens of the American estate, the flowerbed is being asked to do a second job: keep hummingbirds in residence, year after year, rather than for a single passing season. The approach favors flowers chosen for their staying power with the birds over ones prized only for a season's color. It is a quiet, deliberate kind of planting — the difference between a garden merely put in and one tended for return visitors.

With reporting from Veranda.