Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Time to tell us your Top Three Nectar Plants of the Season!, 1 by vitrsna

vitrsna wrote:
Hi Nuts, since i am just newly returned to DG, i don't know if Mrs_Ed (Marna) is still participating. She is also somewhere very cold (i think usda zone 5) in Illinois and was trying it out as a container plant that she could cut back in the winter and bring in the house. She was determined. But she was also interrupted with other things going on and i haven't talked to her for awhile so i don't know how that was working for her.

You can grow buddleia where you are? That is a super butterfly nectar plant that i think you can grow but i cannot. It needs a winter, a real one to be successful. It was not at all happy in the tropics.

Just to be mean, here is a photo of part of the Flame Vine in full bloom. You can be mean back at me and send a photo of a Buddleia :-D