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

tabasco wrote:
Great thread, meredith! I love to see others' butterfly gardens~~ yours is growing by leaps and bounds in the past couple seasons!

It took me a while to get a few pics of the BF garden this summer~!~ I keep thinking it will become prettier, but that's not happening. It's interesting to note how the garden has evolved as some of the perennials have taken over! For instance the monardas that last year were barely visible are all over the place this year (with not many bf visitors, nor hummingbirds). My milkweeds from past years seem to have disappeared (yanked out in the springtime~~ misidentified as weeds?). I usually have some (red) daylilies in the bed for contrast and to draw in the hummers, but the dear went through and systematically beheaded them last night! (sob).

Any way, here's a pic of our main bf bed~~ notice there are no butterflies in sight. They have been few and far between so far this summer.