Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Quotations from a great butterfly garden article:, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
There are days when I do have a lot of butterflies and then there are the other 80% where there are just a few at a time. The Queens and the Monarchs are the only ones that come in groups. I will get maybe 3-4 Giant Swallowtails at once for a while too. What attracts them in groups is the masses of zinnias.

My Eastern Black Swallowtails do the same thing tho! They come and lay eggs then they rarely return. I know when I see one they are looking for the fennel. On the otherhand, I have the Pipevine's that will come to nectar but I don't have any pipevine for their eggs. (hopefully that will be taken care of soon!) I might get 2 of them at the same time.

I love the groups, but it's usually the one little obscure one that I get so excited about and spend time trying to get some pics of. I love the Buckeye's!

The one and only Morning Cloak I've ever seen in my yard and in person, was on my water fountain, dead. That was really weird! I thought it was kind of neat tho that it made it's last stop here.

This is the best pic I could find of my coral Porterweed. It's about 4 ft tall.