Weedwhacker said:Karen -- fragrant for the butterflies or you?
Weedwhacker said:Karen -- fragrant for the butterflies or for you?
I do have plans for establishing a b'fly garden next year, but I've been trying to get to that plan for 2 years now so only time will tell. You might want to check out this forum: http://garden.org/forums/view/... ?
purpleinopp said:Hi & welcome! If you're in Z8 in FL, you may be nearby, in the panhandle area? I'm 80 miles north of Destin.
Asclepias incarnata has a wonderful scent.
Using the advanced search features here (selecting fragrant and attracts butterflies,) it pulled up over 1,600 results. I tried to paste the URL to that completed search but it's not showing up correctly in preview. Should be easy to repeat at your end (fragrant is under the heading of "flowers" and attracts butterflies is farther down, under "wildlife attractant":
http://garden.org/plants/searc...
Some plants that attract bees & butterflies like crazy don't get much credit for it, like basil & Coleus. You can't go wrong with Zinnias.
(I think Lantana smells great!)
purpleinopp said:From past experience of having to dig out a wayward patch of some kind of Buddleia sold as 'Blue Chips,' (but didn't really look like other pics of plants by that name, so I never believed that's what it was,) I'd say to avoid the BB's that aren't sterile cultivars. (It had droopy, washed-out looking blooms.) If they're seedy, they're weedy, IME.
The well-behaved one I've kept moving around with me for the past 25 or so years is a wonderful plant that butterflies do love, no seeds.
- Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii)
- Uploaded by purpleinopp
tarev said:My area is more dry and hot during late Spring to Summer, and Butterflies that make it to my garden seem to have a color preference rather than scent preference: It is fun to watch them as they make their specific choices
Eastern Swallowtail and Monarch Butterflies love my Asclepias currasavica:
With or without blooms this Monarch kept coming back to Asclepias currasavica
Eastern swallowtail seems to like to see yellow& red and bluish/purplish and white blooms:
On our yarrow
On our dwarf agapanthus
On our calamondin tree
On our Asclepias currasavica
Skipper butteflies loves our yellow lantana
This painted lady butterfly just loves anything pink:
On the Lewisia
On Crassula springtime