I like how Judy is planting butterfly and hummingbird plants. I occurs to me that I haven't bought one new plant this year, a record low. It is probably because the perennial ones like the various greggii and microphylla are hardy for me and so don't need to be replaced. Rooted and brought in last fall: Salvia Amistad, miniata, and a hybrid of my own: Cuphea Vermillionair and David Verity; hybrid Coral Bean. Between the former close to a hundred plants.
Grown from seed is a longer list: splendens Giant and Yvonne's planted in 20 foot rows, 300 Tropical Milkweed, 100 or so Zinnia, 16 Mexican Petunia white, 2 Salvia vinafolia, 2 guaranitica Violacea, a couple of god knows what hybrid Salvia, Cardinal Climber, mina lobata, Mexican Sunflower.
Because it has been so cold volunteers haven't really joined the party other than way to many Brazilian Verbena. Standard volunteers for me are Salvia subrotunda and various coccinea, and always way too many Leonotis nepetifolia. Avoid the later it is a dangerous plant in the south and bad enough around here. Worse is that I love its 10 foot tall monstrousness in a single season and because it doesn't take long to come into bloom - by July. This sounds like a recommendation and perhaps it is as long as you don't live in zones where it will perennialize.
There is more but that is enough
