Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES PAGE 6, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Yes Suzy,
These HCs are super hardy, and if you get one the GST's will likely sniff it out within a month or so. I would be thrilled to see you get one.

Continuing to scan to the right from the pic above.. I could try to make a short list of thats pictured here..

Coreopsis Mouse Ears
Coreopsis Day Dreams
Salvia gregii
Red Verbena
Black & Blue Salvia
Bat Faced Cuphea
Tiny Mice Cuphea
Nasturtium
Cigar Plant Cuphea
Tall Cosmos
~Behind that row you cant see anything, so I wont list now. Now most of your fancier landscaped gardens will not have tall plants in front, but I find the butterflies are attracted to places they can find to hide behind away from the house view. It also serves as a good windbreak.
The next perpendicular row to the right has:

Flame Acanthus
Salvia gregii
Yarrow
Nasturtium
A long thick row of Asclepias incarnata (Milkweed) About 2 dozen plants of it, some just about to bloom.
Very back of that row, Zanthoxylum hirsutim (Hercules Club)

Far right row:
Spicebush Lindera benzoin
More Nasturtium
More Yarrow
Sweet Pea
Buddleia Royal Red
Aristolochia macrophylla, (Pipevine)
Veronica, Speedwell
More Nasturtium
More Yarrow
More Sweet Pea
Buddleia Black Knight
Another Spicebush
Some Cardinal flowers under the Privet in the back corner, doing pretty well there, about to bloom

The pot hanging from the tree in foreground has Fuschia, and under that is a small Asima trilobata Pawpaw Tree

I missed a lot.. surely. Behind all the tall flowers are:
Lemon Tree
Hops Tree
Echinacea Magnus
Laitris
Rudbeckia
A tuberosa
Sunflowers
Zinnias
Forget me nots
Gladiolas
Crocosmia
Alyssum
Red Monarda
Joe Pye
Spotted Joe Pye

That's it for the most part...If I remember something I will add it later.

:-Deb



This message was edited Jun 16, 2007 11:47 AM