Voting Booth: Natives in your landscaping?, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:

I'm planting for the butterflies these days and so I make an effort to find nectar and host plants from the natives offered at our local nurseries or from seeds collected in the parks. The garden centers seem to be offering a wider selection of natives than even just a few years ago, too!

That's not to say that I don't plant non-natives to our area, too,--for instance tropical milkweeds, zinnias, buddliea, verbenas and lantanas which the butterflies love to nectar on all through the summer.