Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Do you grow Liatris ligulistylis for the Monarchs??, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Hi Butterfliers--

I was recently perusing another forum and a poster (Moby) mentioned that Liatris ligulistylis (or "meadow blazing star') was very attractive to Monarchs, as compared to Liatris' spicata and kobold, the two cultivars that I grow (spicata is in tha photo).

Does anyone on this forum happen to grow ligulistylis?? If you do, what sort of environment do you grow it in? And have you found it extraordinarily attractive to the butterflies?

I am wondering abou this particular one because I have limited sunny space for the butterfly garden and will switch over to this variety if the butterflies love it as much as it seems...

In this write up they say it is 'unsurpassed' as a Monarch attractor (even as compared to all the other liatris they have listed on their website.)

http://www.critsite.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.plantDet...

If you have any thoughts, please share-- thanks. t.