Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: butterfly and hummers garden plans???, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:

Having a small lake bordering the garden would be so fun and interesting! No such luck here, but we do have a nice variety of wetland birds passing over and through our property on the way to the Ohio River (one mile south of us) and a little duck family that seems to be displaced who wake us up every morning with their quacking. So cute.

konkreteb., yes, I would think it's probably a little warm for wintersowing there. It seems like the Texas gardeners have better luck just setting up uncovered containers like you did and keeping them watered or else just sowing in rows in a 'nursery garden' and then setting out in the real garden when the seedings are big enough. We have trouble with birds eating our seeds---is that a problem for you?

My liatris just came into bloom this week. I have it planted with some cosmos, buddliea, and lantana with it.

Mostly only cabbage butterfly visitors so far, though...no action on the milkweeds and other host plants. Oh, well. I must be patient.