Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: The evolution of my butterfly garden... (lots of pics), 1 by passiflora07

passiflora07 wrote:
Here's the start of my garden (all Central Florida native plants)! It looks a little bare right now because I'm not done planting and the plants are still young. After I put down the pine needle mulch and everything grows a little more it will be much cooler looking. Not bad though I think! I can't wait to see the butterflies!

Included (so far) are:

Piloblephis rigida - Florida pennyroyal
Ruellia caroliniensis - Wild petunia
Asclepias curassavica - Scarlet milkweed
Salvia lyrata - Lyreleaf sage
Vernonia angustifolia - Tall ironweed
Monarda punctata - Horsemint
Licania michauxii - Gopher apple
Solidago fistulosa - Pine-barren goldenrod
Liatris spicata - Blazing star
Salvia coccinea - Tropical sage

I am also planting these (and eventually other) host plants nearby:

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis - Hercules' club
Lindera benzoin - Spicebush
Passiflora incarnata - Maypop