Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Butterfly magnet, 1 by jmorth

jmorth wrote:
beckygardener,
The tall asters in my yard are native wildflowers as opposed to the shorter bred varieties. Maybe when they were selecting strains they bred the flying insect attractant properties out. I have a shorter "Wonder of Stafa" aster that started blooming in June, peaked in August, and is still with flower but on the FIAS (flying insect attractant scale) it rates a 2.5 to the New England asters 9.25. Tobasco and I think another poster reported asters with a low FIA rating
as well. Pic is A. frikartii (Wonder of Stafa).

pennyfeather,
Which one?

and, I agree, Kudzu is downright nefarious...my personal nemesis, the plant that troubles me the most is ground ivy.