Show your butterfly and hummingbird gardens/plants

[GrowingCoastal]

Originally Posted by mannalon

Are you going to send seeds to the Annual Canadian seed swap? I would like to get some.

Not sending seeds to the swap but will send you some if you pm your address to me.

[SpookyShoe]

They are here in droves. This is the feeder closest to the back door of the house.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[SpookyShoe]

I have no idea why they are not fighting. I just can't take good photos (of hummingbirds) with my phone.

Donna

[SpookyShoe]

The hummers are feasting on all of this. In the background are dwarf pomegranate and Gold Star Esperanza. Also in view are a few pentas.

[bower]

My, it is a lovely time of year where you're living.

[SpookyShoe]

Thank you, but September is actually hot (unless it's raining and the sun's not out). It's raining now.

Donna

[roper2008]

I hope this comes out right since I'm doing it from my phone. Here is a picture of a sulfer
butterfly laying eggs on this popcorn cassia. I buy the plant from a nursery every year, but
only one plant, or else I'll spend too much money with the other stuff I buy. I would love to
have seeds, but I never get seed pods. Anyway the leaves on this plant really smell like
popcorn. I love it. I hope to find seeds this winter so I can have more than 1 plant.

[SpookyShoe]

I see the sulfur. At first I thought it was a petal of one of the yellow flowers.

Donna

[SpookyShoe]

These are still blooming for me. Host plant for the Gulf Fritillary butterfly.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[Salsacharley]

I'm tellin ya, that's so freakin incredible to look at...who needs psychedelics when you can look at that!

[MissS]

Originally Posted by GrowingCoastal

You have a good eye! Yes, it was a Wendy's Wish that year. I wasn't able to winter it over and have never seen another for sale here. It is one that does not have seeds.



Over the years I have grown a lot of different flowers to see what would attract hummingbirds but in the past two have been decreasing how many flowers I grow in pots and increasing the number of tomato plants.

My best plants for attracting the hummingbirds are salvia "Black and Blue" and Cuphea "David Verity" or Velmillionaire. After that any of the New World salvia work very well for me as does agastache.

[GrowingCoastal]

I have to agree about the Vermillionaire being one of the main attractions for hummingbirds.

I have a very tall version of Mystic Spires, I think, that does well in pots and below, the salvia Amistad.

Those three winter over well in my garage and are easy to take cuttings from in spring if I want. Hot Lips survives winters in the ground here. The others do too but are very slow to come back and remain skimpy.






I have some of the shrub, Abelia, that blooms right up until hard frosts. A nice lightly scented plant that they love, too.

[nancyruhl]

Saw this beauty on calibrochia at the oh so wonderful Franklin Park Botanical Gardens in Columbus.

[nancyruhl]

And this beauty, too.

[roper2008]

Donna, that passiflora is beautiful. Can only grow the regular passiflora here. I've
always admired the red one, another beauty.