This is my first year planting for butterflies.

Nectar

Mexican flame vine

Red Pentas Lanceolata

Zinnias

Mexican Heather

Host Plants

Silver Brocade Artemesia

Rue

Tropical milkweed

Diascia

Fennell

Carrot

Parsley

Swamp milkweed

Still looking for Gas Plant (dictamnus)

James

Trying to make sure some BSTs show up, eh James? :)

Looks like I'm not able to edit my original post so I'll correct my spelling here. First plant should have been wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).

zinnia

scabiosa

lavendar

mexican heather

asyluum

mexican sunflower

dill

garlic chives

sage

butter daisy

(you did say new, so that's all I listed)

And new is what I meant. :) Having a thread on new plants is somewhat of a tradition here. I've found the threads useful because I have used them to refresh my memory of when I started stuff. I used the 2009 thread to figure out when I first planted phlox.

New Plants for 2009

I don't have many new plants this year, just old standbys, KC. I've got some Asclepias perennis growing in a pot, which is new - I haven't figured out just yet where I'm going to plant it, since it's a swamp milkweed. I would plant it in the bottom of the hollow, but deer, rabbits, and maybe other critters eat so much of what grows down there, I'm thinking better of it. There's an open place in my garden where ironweed grows. Maybe I'll plant it there, just lower than the surrounding soil.

I've got three sugarberry/Celtis laevigata trees growing in pots to plant out this fall. After seeing my first snout, I wanted its host plant, plus sugarberry reputedly hosts others, like question marks.

Speaking of your monarda, last year I planted a beautiful form of monarda that I got from Sunlight Gardens. It is burgundy/magenta flowered, just beautiful! I didn't expect it to do much, since monardas haven't come back for me in the past. Well, this one not only came back, it reseeded all around it! I dug up some of the volunteers, and I've replanted them in a big pot. I don't know what I'm going to do with the others, maybe just leave them, maybe transplant some of them along the road. The only problem is it gets mildew, especially the ones in the pot, particularly in this continuing wet, foggy, humid weather, but it recovers once the sun stays out for any length of time. I don't know why my others (M. fistulosa and the red type) didn't return, and I don't know why this one is so vigorous, but I'll take it!

Sherry

Dill, rue, fennel, tropical milkweed, Mexican sunflower and tarragon, zinnia, cigar flower, Mexican petunias, lavender, garlic chives, parsley and carrot

When I ordered the soapwort, the place I bought it from also had common rue. I've been saying for years I would not get some but I just planted one in my backyard. A little insurance policy in case I have GST cats and no hoptree leaves again.

Sherry is this the plant you are referring to? Monarda? If so, can you tell us when it bloomed? Most monardas don't seem to do well here in my garden. It may be too hot and humid here in Central Florida. This one is rated to zone 9, so perhaps this one will work here.