Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Wintersowing for Hummingbirds & Butterflies??, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Hi butterfliers!

I went through the old 'Favorite Nectar Plants' threads and "Host plant' threads looking for some new ideas so ately I have been busy as abee with my wintersowing and seed starting under lights:

My seed sowing list for Butterfly Nectar Flowers Includes to date includes:

Coneflowers: Bravado, Magnus, Unnamed, Starlight (wintersowed)
Verbena Bonarienses: Seed collected from my garden (wintersowed)
Zinnias: Cut and Come Agains, Magellans and Benary Giants (these are under lights in the basement)
Tithonia (Mexican Sunflowers): Under lights too. 'Torch' 'Goldfinger' 'unnamed collected seed' and 'Fiesta del Sol' (WS and under lights)
Armeraria (WS and under lights)
Artisimia
Hollyhocks (red/pink single old-fashioned) (WS and under lights)
Buddleia (butterfly bush) Lavender from Renee's seeds (under lights)
Alyssum 'Blueberries and Cream' mixture
Snapdragons (wintersowed)
Scabiosa
Liatris (spicata, squarrosa, pycno. and ligustylus) (wintersowed)
gomphrena (wintersowed)
Cosmos
Ageratum cutting (under lights)
Texas Mist Flower (under lights)
Echinops ritro 'Blue Glow' (wintersowed)

I know I wintersowed a few others but I didn't make a list--must go out and do that before I lose the labels! Several herbs, vines, and many salvias are under lights or in WS bins and I'll list those later!

Has anyone else been busy seed sowing?!

Let's see your lists! Maybe we'll get some ideas for new nectar/host plants for our gardens.

Happy gardening! t.