Easy Perennial Butterfly And Hummingbird Garden Design
You should also plant butterfly nectar plants including mums coneflowers and zinnias so the butterflies have food.
Easy perennial butterfly and hummingbird garden design. Here s a simple garden design featuring my favorite hummingbird attracting plant. Hummingbird butterfly garden for sun. Mature plants will fill a 72 square feet of planting space.
Top perennial plants for a butterfly garden. To create a butterfly and hummingbird garden plant lots of butterfly host plants like milkweed nettle clover and dill which will give butterflies a place to breed. Get planting advice garden design tips and trends monthly checklists for your area product specials and more in our weekly.
Hummingbird container garden summer flowers the best 24 plants to attract hummingbirds. Another consideration is providing plants for all stages of the butterfly s short. Thankfully all of the hummingbird plants butterfly garden flowers and hummingbird vines we planted are drought tolerant which means they are easy to establish without needing a constant supply of water.
Since we live in california we pay more for water in drought years so keeping things simple with the right perennials was important. P p b our butterfly and hummingbird pre planned garden is roughly 12 x 6 and. P the butterfly and hummingbird garden includes 21 perennial plants that will attract and support your favorite butterflies and hummingbirds.
How to make a hummingbird garden design. The stained glass patterns of butterfly wings will add an extra dimension to this colorful garden bed which bursts with easy to grow perennial and annual flowers that are irresistible to these pretty creatures. Major wheeler honeysuckle combined with some of the best and most hardy sun loving flowering perennial and ornamental plants that hummingbirds also love.
Hummingbirds and butterflies will flock to the nectar in lavender blue catmint pink and white coneflowers white blazing star pink bee balm phlox and aromatic agastache blue. Plant in full sun to see the most butterfly activity and be sure to look for hummingbirds just before dusk. Enjoy colorful blooms birds and butterflies all summer long with an easy care perennial garden for a sunny location.