Show your butterfly and hummingbird gardens/plants

[SpookyShoe]

Thanks.

[GrowingCoastal]

Originally Posted by SpookyShoe

I know that some of you have grown this. How big did yours get? Has anyone grown it in a container? The descriptions of the plant on the internet say it can be.

Wendy's Wish got to be at least 3 ft in a container for me. I had it only one year and it did not over winter well in the garage like my other salvias do. I'd grow it again if i could find it!

[SpookyShoe]

Originally Posted by GrowingCoastal

Wendy's Wish got to be at least 3 ft in a container for me. I had it only one year and it did not over winter well in the garage like my other salvias do. I'd grow it again if i could find it!

You are right. You don't see it often...forget finding it at a Big Box Store. I am lucky to live near an independently owned nursery on several acres. They don't have 2 salvias; they probably have 15. And as for passion vine....I'm guessing around 5 different types.

You might be able to order a WW plant off the internet. Speaking of hard to find salvias, I propagated a Hot Lips salvia from a cutting late last summer. It's about 1 1/2 feet high now.

[GrowingCoastal]

The Hotlips are common here with new colours coming out. I bought a Cranberry last year and a pink the year before that. The are wintering over well enough in the ground. It really is a fave with the hummingbirds.

[Worth1]

Picked my first semi ripe loquat today and ate it.
Cant believe they made it through the winter.
One of my neighbors yucca plants is in full bloom too.

Originally Posted by SpookyShoe

You are right. You don't see it often...forget finding it at a Big Box Store. I am lucky to live near an independently owned nursery on several acres. They don't have 2 salvias; they probably have 15. And as for passion vine....I'm guessing around 5 different types.

You might be able to order a WW plant off the internet. Speaking of hard to find salvias, I propagated a Hot Lips salvia from a cutting late last summer. It's about 1 1/2 feet high now.

I got my WW from my local nursery, so they do turn up if you persist.
I also order from Flowers By The Sea. (I’m incorrigible.)

[SpookyShoe]

This thing is getting very large and it is blooming up a storm. For some reason it's attracting a lot of bees.

[Gardenboy]

I have fresh passiflora edulis flavicarpa (passion vine) seeds if anyone is interested. They bloom and produce fruit all season.

The bees go for both my Cuphea too. They’re hilarious; they drill through the blossom at the base to get at the nectar. Same with most of the salvias because they can’t fit their fat selves into the flower.

[SpookyShoe]

[QUOTE=PlainJane;731843]The bees go for both my Cuphea too. They’re hilarious; they drill through the blossom at the base to get at the nectar. Same with most of the salvias because they can’t fit their fat selves into

True, lol.

[SpookyShoe]

I have to wait for the three foxglove plants to finish blooming so that I can put my Wendy's Wish Salvia and my Hot Lips salvia which are now in pots into the ground. I treat the foxgloves every year like annuals, as they do not come back well in my hot and humid zone 9.

I treat delphiniums the same ... as annuals.

Morning in the mini-orchard/pollinator garden. Apples, figs, blueberries, pluots, a mulberry and a lemon.
Pollinator plants are arugula, dill, cilantro, hamelia, cerinthe, borage, Abutilon, fire spike, lobelia, African Blue Basil and about 20 types of salvia.

[roper2008]

Very nice Jane, wish I could grow all those fruits here.

Originally Posted by roper2008

Very nice Jane, wish I could grow all those fruits here.

Everything but the citrus is hardy in your zone, and this all fits into a pretty standard size backyard. You just have to be happy with less grass.

I grew the fruit trees on from whips for a year while saving and planning.

The garden is now in its 2nd full year. Some plants like agastache couldn’t take the humidity and melted away, so I certainly had some losses. From a bird, bee and butterfly perspective it’s exactly what I hoped for and so fun to watch.