A bonus of a wildflower garden is the wild life it attracts, including butterflies, hummingbirds and beneficial insects.
Plant Suggestions for a Wildflower Meadow
To Attract Butterflies- Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
- Cleome (Cleome hasslerana)
- Zinnia (Zinnia elegans)
- Cornflower (Cetaurea cyanus)
To Feed Hummingbirds
- Garden Columbine (Aquilegia Vulgaris)
- Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
- Cleome (Cleome jasslerana)
- link url=http://gardening.about.com/od/plantprofiles/p/Zinnias.htm]Zinnia (Zinnia elegans)
- Bishop's Weed (Amni majus): minute pirate bugs, bigeyed bugs, assassin bugs, lacewings
- Globe Candytuft (Iberis umbellata): syrphid flies
- White Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens): parasitic wasps of aphids, scales and whitefiles
- Yarrow ( Achillea millefolium): ladybugs
- Fennel, Dill & Caraway: braconid and sand wasps, syrphid and tachinid flies
