Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Best hummingbird/butterfly shrub or plant for Texas (DFW)?, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Lavender does fine here critter, I love them!...but not a particularly attractive nectar source for bflies.. Your right about full sun plants doing better with some shade here in the heat of summer. Also it's interresting which butterflies go for which nectar plants. Some butterflies go for certain colors over others too. Yellow is a superior color for attracting, and looks really great with lavender and or purples. Yellow Coreopsis if you cant find any Huisache Daisies. They take the sun well, and bloom like crazy. Plant a power house of a nectar flower near the lavender and everyone gets what they want.

I have all colors of good nectar plants, but if you look at all the pics I have shared since these began blooming, daisies or coreopsis.. about 85-90% have a yellow flower.
Butterflies love Asteraceae family plants.

Sounds like your doing a great job helping your friend!

Deb

Today: Northern Crescent and Amblyolepsis setigera