Best Hummingbird Gardens in Tompkins County, New York

Encompassing over 4,300 acres of natural areas, gardens, and preserve lands on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, Cornell Botanic Gardens is one of the largest university-affiliated botanical gardens in the country. The Mundy Wildflower Garden is a nationally recognized floodplain woodland showcase for native plants of the Cayuga Lake basin. The Botanic Buzzline — a 980-square-foot flowering pathway with 45+ native plant varieties — was specifically designed as a pollinator corridor. The gardens are managed with a strong native plant emphasis, making them exceptional Ruby-throated Hummingbird habitat throughout the breeding season.

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