Choosing flowers to attract the most butterflies and hummingbirds
Today we ’re off to Michigan to see John Blair ’s incredible butterfly stroke and hummingbird garden .
I transmit in some of my garden photos back in 2013 for Garden Photo of the Day ( More From John ’s Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden in Michigan ) . After that , I completely fulfill all of my available garden outer space at our southeastern Michigan home , so my married woman and I moved from suburban area to a very rural location in southerly Michigan two twelvemonth ago . Now with nine acres , I have nearly unlimited way for gardening ! My speciality is makingbutterfly gardensand also incorporatingnative plantswith my favorite nonnatives to create what I call a blended garden . to boot , we are restore five of our acres to native prairie in conjunction with theU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . We have lots of fun horticulture projects going on here , and I thought you might enjoy seeing what I ’ve gotten done in two summers here at our new place .
A wild admixture of many different flowers ensure passel and pot of food sources for a wide-cut stove of jaw butterfly stroke . It is pretty gorgeous too !
A hummingbird sips at the flowers ofCupheaignea(Zones 10–12 ) . Also calledcigar flower , this plant is native to Mexico but grows as an annual in colder zone .
An eastern Panthera tigris swallow-tailed coat butterfly stroke sips attall verbena(Verbenabonariensis , Zones 7–11 or as an annual ) .
A elephantine swallow-tailed coat butterfly on azinnia(Zinniaelegans , annual ) flower . Zinnias are well loved by butterflies , and varieties with few flower petal are favored the most by pollinators .
A course wanders through this pollinator ’s paradise !
Native perennialsmix with the annuals to round out this ecologically sensitive garden .
A rainbow over the garden
Just a few monarch butterfly on a liatris flower spike ! This looks likeLiatrisligulistylis(Zones 3–7 ) , which is an absolute attractor for monarch butterfly stroke .
How big would it be to live in this flowery , butterfly - filled paradise ?
The distinctive spot on its wing give the vulgar buckeye coquette its name .
This unbelievable Polyphemus moth is an example of how moths can be just as beautiful as butterfly .
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