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Butterflies and Hummingbirds - Same plants?

Posted by birder101 | September 26, 2008 7:19pm | Viewed 1123 times | 4 replies | Last replied by Jr49503 on October 06, 2008 5:38pm

Do I plant the same thing for both butterflies and humming birds? And, what are the best things to plant?


ButterflySue

September 27, 2008 8:10pm

The hummers and butterflies like some of the same plants, but not all. Hard to tell you what to plant because it varies upon the area you live in.


birder101

September 27, 2008 8:29pm

I am in Wisconsin - so I have the winter to deal with. What do you think would be a good start?


ButterflySue

September 28, 2008 12:31am

Hey, that was where I was 2 yrs ago before I retired. I had several gardens in my yard and lots of pots. I lived in Milw. I had an above ground swimming pool that we got rid of and I turned that area into a 12x12 butterfly garden. In the middle I grew Joe Pye Weed. I surrounded that with milkweeds, dill, turtlehead, coneflower, liatris. Further away from that I had butterfly bush and milkweeds in pots. I never had any hummers until I planted a row of red zinnias. I planted, at least, 20 red tall zinnias along the house and since they do get the mildew, I planted pink profusion zinnias in front of them. That attracted hummers and they liked the turlehead too.


Jr49503

October 06, 2008 5:38pm

I find that the hummingbirds and the butterflies go to the same type of plants and flowers in my yard.

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