Flowers That Attract Birds, Butterflies, Hummingbirds

Black Eyed Susan
The most well-known are bright yellow daisy-like flowers with a tall, somewhat hairy stem. They are relatively tall, easy to grow and make excellent cut flowers.

They do grow best in full sun. Try to find a spot that offers at least 6 hours of direct sun a day. Once established, they are tough.

Butterfly Weed
Best in well drained sand, clay or limestone. Full sun to partial shade, they grow about 1½ to 2 feet tall, are orange or yellow and are in clusters.

A little hard to grow but easy to maintain once they are established. Provides a banquet of bugs for a variety of birds, and definitely attracts butterflies.

Many people like to remove their pods when they are done blooming, as the pods will burst and spread seeds everywhere.

Yarrow
2' - 5' tall, yarrow is pink, red, yellow, white and gold. Some consider them a weed.

Does good in poor soil but likes sun. Attracts lots of insects, so the birds are attracted as well.

Try to divide them every 3 years for best results.

There are plenty more flowers and plants that can be added to this list. I'll show you more in future posts.

The spotted bee balm plant produces a beautiful plant with purple spotted flowers known to attract bees and other beneficial garden pollinators.

This is a must have plant.  Bee Balm It is drought resistant. 

Beautiful Succulents

 My neighbor gave me a succulent plant this year and now I'm hooked. Here's some of the plants I have sitting on a shelf on my indoor pond.

The one in the yellow pot is the one she gave me and, if you look to the far left, you'll see a cup with the same succulent in it. My grandson took some leaves from the original and planted them as an experiment. You can see they are growing nicely. 

The other two succulents were given to me by my grandson for my birthday. The one in the middle is so gorgeous. The pot is unique and looks like two tree stumps. A cactus is in the smaller trunk and an arrangement is in the larger. They came from Home Depot and the only description is drought resistant.

Right behind my original is a beautiful cactus succulent. Here is a closeup. I can't find it on the internet so if anyone knows what kind of succulent cactus this is, please let me know.

I'm going to try to find names of these plants. As I said, they are drought resistant, and the care instructions on the tag are just the same instructions for most succulents. 

I have plans to add a lot more, so I'll update you as I make progress.

Succulents