Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: What are your top ten butterfly/hummingbird attracting plts?, 1 by Florida9

Florida9 wrote:
Amygirl,

We also have tried planting for hummers after we moved to FL from CA, where we had a lot of them around. The Hamelia Patens (Firebush) and Passiflora "Blue Bouquet" are real butterfly favorites and it seems that at least the
Firebush is also drawing the hummers. But I was really surprised to find they were mostly hanging out around the yellow shrimp plants (Pachystachys lutea). They also went for the Justicia Carnea in the spring, but my plants haven't done well in summer. And they all seem to like the Mexican Torch sunflowers, which grow so easily from seed.

Dan