Best Hummingbird Gardens in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

A historic seaside botanical garden perched within sight of the Atlantic Ocean at Little Boars Head, Fuller Gardens was commissioned in the late 1920s by Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller and designed by the Olmsted Firm. The 3-acre garden features over 1,700 rose bushes, English perennial borders, a Japanese Garden, a Hosta Garden, a Dahlia display, and a tropical conservatory. The perennial borders provide continuous bloom from spring through fall, with Ruby-throated Hummingbirds visiting the bee balm and phlox in the English perennial borders from June through early September.

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The Moffatt-Ladd House is a National Historic Landmark open as a historic house museum since 1912 — one of the finest Georgian houses in colonial New England, built by merchant John Moffatt in 1763. The terraced garden behind the house incorporates a Colonial Revival-style design with period-appropriate plantings, climbing roses, old-fashioned perennials, and fragrant herbs. Located in the heart of downtown Portsmouth, it provides a surprising oasis of bloom. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds visit the flowering perennial borders from June through early September.

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The Massabesic Audubon Center is a 130-acre wildlife sanctuary in Auburn with more than five miles of trails through rolling fields, mature deciduous forest, woodland wetlands, a pond, and marshes adjacent to Lake Massabesic. The center features native pollinator gardens open daily dawn to dusk, live animal exhibits, and an All Persons Trail through grasslands, wetland areas, and native plant gardens. NH Audubon hosts an annual Pollinator Fest and Native Plant Sale — Ruby-throated Hummingbirds nest on the sanctuary grounds.

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