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Much can be said for the enjoyment of watching humming birds in search for the perfect flower or the many colors of the butterfly flitting through your garden. Attracting winged quests to your garden is easy and most enjoyable.

If you don't already have some plants that attract these performers, here are some suggestions.


Sidalcea 'Brilliant'


Neon-bright blooms that attract both butterflies and hummingbirds like crazy. The Sidalcea reaches about three feet tall and reblooms readily when cut back after first bloom.

Use it in the cutting garden, border, containers, or even as edging, its bright flowerstems leaning companionably into garden paths, its neat rosette of foliage remaining attractive out of bloom. It flowers so profusely that you can skillfully cut a half dozen or more bloomstalks from a single plant without diminishing its garden beauty. And this only encourages new buds to develop all the quicker! Zones 4-9.



Buddleia


A butterfly delight! Spikes formed at the stem end reveal large florets that crowd along the flowerspike. Expect them to begin in midsummer and continue through mid-fall, delighting butterflies and bees as well as filling the garden with their sweet scent.

Buddleia likes well-drained soil and plenty of sunshine. It can take a wide range of soils once established, and tolerates heat, humidity, and drought very well, though the best flowering will always occur with adequate watering. A magnificent addition to any garden. Zones 5-9.



Asclepias tuberosa

The Classic "Butterfly Flower" -- Bloom Heavy and Super Easy to Grow!
Big orange blooms welcome summer, attracting butterflies and gardeners in droves!
Why can't all wildflowers be as beautiful as bright, hardy Butterfly Flower? Big orange flowerheads burst into bloom in mid- to late summer, attracting every butterfly in the neighborhood to your garden and stealing the show with color so rich it almost glows! This lovely perennial is especially attractive to Monarch butterflies, acting as a nectar source and a host plant, providing a place for the butterflies to lay their eggs. The foliage is lovely, too, extending this Asclepias' beauty beyond bloomtime.

Easy to grow, it asks only for sun and plenty of it; it laughs at heat and drought, survives winter unscathed, and is long-lived. It reaches 2 feet tall and about 3 feet wide, with a lush, rangy form that complements other plantings nicely. And the blooms are super for cutting! Zones 3-9.



Mexican Fire Bush

Clusters of bright orange tubular 1-1/2" blooms are borne from spring to fall. A rounded woody shrub-like perennial. Attracts Hummingbirds. Likes full sun and grows to about four feet high and four feet wide.

Add some extra touches. A hummingbird feeder strategicaly located among the plants will bring plenty of activity.

Let us know some of your favorites.

Til next time,

Poppy