Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Melanie's Spring Butterfly Thread, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
The skippers love the Spanish Needles, too. I often say that some of the best butterfly plants are weeds. At the USF plant festival this year the native plant society (who I have the utmost respect for) was naturally selling lots of native plants to folks. A good mission, but some of those plants are sooo common and people were paying $4 a pot for them! Like the above-mentioned frogfruit, and I also saw Spiderwort for sale. I had to bite my tongue to keep from telling people to just go dig some up off the side of the road (or your neighbor's yard - tell them you're "weeding" and they might even thank you for stealing their plants).