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Forum: Hummingbird and Butterfly GardeningTotal Replies: 8
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Jo_in_Tx
Sugar Land, TX

February 12, 2008
11:21 PM

I want to attract butterflies and hummingbirds. I guess that's pretty obvious considering I'm posting here. ;) If you could offer any suggestions for my climate zone 9 - hot and humid. I'd really appreciate it. (And I do plan on adding hamelia patens.) Any suggestions would be SO greatly appreciated.

Cross posted below:

Anyway, my garden will have a definite Texas/cottage garden/tropical all-in-one look!

The bones of the garden:

White crepe myrtle
Chaste (vitex) tree - purple blooms
Ebbing's silverberry elaeagnus - already pruned to a small "weeping" tree
Two Sweet/tea olives (just three feet high)
Agapanthus - blue-ish purple
Bi-color African irises
Some "Green Ice" mini roses - white
3 small gardenia bushes
2 "airy" shrub plants with burgandy leaves and tiny pink flowers (can't remember the name!)

Nice boulder rocks
A chiminea that looks a hundred years old - a little tex-mex in the garden haha

I'm planning on adding:

Apricot Sprite Agastache
Red Hot Poker Flamenco
Red Salvia
Goldfinger Mexican Sunflower
Arizona Sun Blanket flower

Thanks so much! I love photography, so I hope I have lots of photos to add later. I did grow milkweed last year, and had a blast watching the cats grow!

Jo

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