Alana - do you want butterfly host plants or just nectar plants, or both? I'm assuming this is a sunny area, right? The butterfly bush may provide some shade eventually, too.

Asters are good for fall bloom and come in a variety of colors.

Liatris - good nectaring for lots of different species. You can usually get a pack of 25 for about $4-5.00.

What kind of lilies did you get? Asiatics bloom first and then orientals. Lilium formosanum is a fall blooming lily that is quite lovely, too.

You can plant some daffodils and hyacinth as well for early spring blooms.

Amsonias are great for mid-late spring blooms, with blue starry flowers, and brilliant yellow foliage color in fall. Good nectar plant.

Do you have any milkweed planted for the Monarchs? It's their host plant. Tropical is an annual, but reseeds in my zone 7. There is the red/yellow flowering, and the yellow flowering. They start blooming around now, and continue to bloom until frost.

You can use Rue as a grouping, or edging plant. It's pretty with blue-green foliage, and is the host plant for both Black Swallowtails and Giant Swallowtails. Rue can cause contact dermatitus for some people. It doesn't bother me.

If you want to put in a trellis, you can grow a passion vine or pipevine. Passion vines are a host plant for Gulf Fritillaries, and pipevine is for the Pipevine Swallowtails. Passion flowers also attract hummingbirds in my garden.

Scattering some seed of Cleomes will serve as nectar plants and hosts for the Cabbage Whites. They reseed, but don't make a nuisance. There are white, pink, lavendar flowered cleomes.

A lavendar would give you sweet fragrance and blooms that attract lots of butterflies. I have lavendar x intermedia 'Provence'. Needs very dry, neutral soil.

The tropical milkweed also attracts hummers in my zone 7 garden.

Fennel, either bronze or green, will give you some variation in structure in your garden, and it hosts Black Swallowtails as well.

There are just so many, hard to mention all. Check out our FAQs for recommended nectar and host plants.

Susan

Wow, thank you for your post! I would love to have all of the plants you mentioned! I'm going to write them down for future reference. The lilies I got are Asiatic ones. Your choices sound great. I am still not sure how to group them, but I have about a week to think about it, I guess! Thank you so much for your feed-back.
Alana

You're welcome and having fun with a garden is most important! Let us know how it goes and what you plant. I love to talk gardening! LOL!

Susan