Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Some pics of our summer BF Garden..., 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Cord, we don't seem to have a big problem with grass growing up into the flower beds. I do pull it out when it is 'young' and it's easy to do because the soil has such nice tilth. We did give the lawn area where we put the lasagna bed a spray of round-up a couple of weeks before we put down the cardboard and maybe that helps. And I really cram in the plants--which I may not do next year for healthier and prettier flower results

We have more of a problem with thistles, and I think that is from some mulch we put down a couple of years ago.

I am really surprised that the butterflies like the daylilies. We planted a few fans of H. 'flamenco queens' (Bens) DLs two years ago and didn't see much action on them but perhaps now they are big and showy enough for the swallowtails to ID them. They are big red daylilies. I have other reds, but the f. q.s are definitely the favorites right now.

Below are some seedlings from 'Valley of the Daylilies' (Bachman) that they seem to like, too. I bought the H. 'flamenco queen' from Bachman's too. They are a very nice place to buy from...