Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Butterflies from my Deck Container Garden, 1 by CrystallP

CrystallP wrote:
Hi All,

I posted a few of these images in the daily thread, but I wanted to share them here. I hope that is okay. This is the second year for my deck container garden. So far, I have attracted loads of Eastern Tiger Swallow Tails, Black Swallowtails, Skippers, American Lady, Great Spangled Fritillary and a few Monarchs. My HOA limits the types of plants I can have around my deck, but I managed to grow a few milkweeds under the deck and I have a small plant growing on the deck. BTW, I managed to squeeze 27 planters on my 12 x 18 deck along with planters for veggies too. The planters range in size from about 4 quart to 44 quart pots. My neighbors love the color the butterflies. They're not even complaining about the bees!! I also have two humming bird feeders. I had a flat feed but it was really hard to keep clean. I switched to two bottle feeders and the hummers appear to be happy. I thoguht they were leaving the area, but they showed up again today!!

TST