Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Which nectar/host plants are great disappointments to you??, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
I suppose it\'s much the same for most of us--garden space is at a premium and I don\'t like to plant host and nectar plants that take up space and don\'t get any visitors.

So which plants were/are a butterfly bust in your garden?

For me it\'s coneflowers or lantanas. I have yet to see a butterfly on my homestead purples, or any other lantana for that matter, ever. I think lantanas are effective in the South, but not so much here in Ohio. And I\'ve never seen a butterfly on my coneflowers, but maybe mine are so highly bred they lost their nectar....

Just my 2 cents!

So what is your \'cast out\' of the BF garden? Let us know! (BTW Also tell us your location).

Wishing you all bountiful butterflies,

J.