Ohio River Valley Gardening: Hummingbird and Butterfly Garden Plant Lists with Invasives?, 1 by henryr10

henryr10 wrote:
We're seeing a lot of Silver-spotted Skippers and a few Hackberry Emperors.

We're actually planting for Butterflies and Dragonflies.
The DF's love perches about 3' over the pond and lily pads to sit and bask on.

Judy you have to get together w/ our neighbor Eric.
He's heavily into native butterfly attractors.
He has, I think, 8 different Milkweeds.
According to him, thru the spotters he runs w/, the Medium Purple Butterfly Bushes seem to do the best attracting.
The deeper Purples and Pinks do OK but will be passed up for the plain old heirloom one.
Seems to be what we see here.

We have a GIANT Salvia that is doing great on the Fall Butterfly and Bombus tour.
They don't even start to bloom until late September..... so w/ most of their food source gone you get concentrations of Butterflies especially Skippers.

Having, well had, good lick last year w/ over ripe bananas in the Muddling bowl.
Really draws the Admirals and other sap eating BF's.
Not pretty but....lol!