Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardens, 1 by Meredith79

Meredith79 wrote:
Here is my Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden on 6/19. This is on the west side of my house right up against my property line, looking away from my house and towards the road. The side closer to the road gets sun until an average of 1pm at the very edge and last longer as it moves towards the back yard with the furthest end being full sun (or close to it). This makes it challenging to keep the same plants on both sides. So I feel like it looks a little odd because of it. In the back of all the flowers there are young evergreens I planted for privacy from the neighbors and for a wind break for the butterflies. I am still adding small stuff I grew from seed throughout, including some Zinnias for color this year, but next year the perennials should be fuller. I think I was trying to recreate a moist meadow, with plants of my choosing rather than what one would actually be. Well almost except most of it ended up being mostly stuff for moist soil and at the very end on the opposite side I have some stuff for drier soil. I figure in a few years some of these plants will do better than others and the garden will take on a life of its own. I do have to water this garden a lot if we have no rain because I have fast draining sandy soil. I use a soaker hose around the bases of the plants most susceptible to taking a turn for the worst in dry weather. Due to the usefulness of these plants as nectar or food sources I thought it was all stuff worth having even though it needs a bit more water. I am trying to do the rest of my gardens with stuff that prefers a drier soil, so to conserve water.plants. Here is a link to the picture with tags of what everything is. http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd73/flutterbug79/My Gard...

This message was edited Jun 28, 2008 10:09 PM