GET MORE AND GIVE MORE WITH YOUR PLANTINGS!
By Erin Mills Cockrell Butterfly Center
We all love to attract butterflies with sweet nectar-producing plants. Spying these delightful flutterers brings joy and a sense of purpose and accomplishment to our gardens. Plenty of other pollinators enjoy our efforts as well, such as hummingbirds and honeybees. These are the pageant-winners of the pollinator world. Native bees are the sometimes- forgotten, true keepers of the Texas landscape and beneficial insects such as assassin bugs, syrphid flies, ladybugs, and lacewings protect our plants from attackers. Why not use plants that check as many boxes as possible and deliver much more ecological bang for our buck!
While many tropical plants make a wonderful addition to your pollinator garden, native pollinators are best adapted to native plants! Here are some native jewels that look amazing, AND really deliver for our most important garden allies.
