What would you prefer attract to your garden.....?

Question

Butterflies, bees, ladybugs, or hummingbirds?? I love gardening :) and have a variety of the above visitors, what is your preference hmmm..? Thanx for your answers :)

Answer 1

I am hanging out for the faerys!
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Oh man its great to have them all in your garden as I do, bees come anyway, buy a butterfly bush it is pretty, smells good and attracs butterfly's, hummingbirds love those hummingbird feeders, and ladybugs also come naturally, or you can buy them on line and let them out in your garden they eat the other bugs that eat your plants, good luck! and have fun!

Answer 4

I used to have lots of ladybugs, but I've noticed that their population has really decreased in the past few years - I miss them! Still have lots of butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and enjoy all of them.

Answer 5

I have a garden designed to attract butterflies and bees.
I use ladybugs to keep the insect pop down. The butterflies and bees are to sensitive to use chemicals. And I have an entire area of my garden devoted to birds. I have to try and keep them apart or they will eat my butterfly caterpillars.

Answer 6

My kind of girl! Just love it when a girl says things like that.

I must say I cannot for the love of money choose just one as a preference. I am an indigenous gardener and select my plants on the basis of who is going to feed off it - not its aesthetic appeal. Pretty, is a big bonus though. Must say I am a sucker for fauna and flora. I can often be found with my face hidden in a plant counting the different types of visitors. Not nice when you face off with a dangerous snake (vine snakes in particular - look like dead branches). Don't you just love those early morning walks with dew on the spiderwebs, the sound of thousands of bees just working away, the bird feeding parties with all the bickering etc.

We are now moving close to spring our most gorgeous aloes are in flower. This morning I counted (single mature Aloe ferox) two bee species, two wasp species, a solitary blue bottle fly, two types of chafer beetles, two camouflaged praying mantis, a bark spider and a small brown beetle (that I need to identify). In attendance were two skinks, a very small agama (blue headed lizard) and a gecko.

I have a huge garden of roughly 2 acres and I border onto a provincial nature reserve which adds another few thousand acres to my stand in real terms. I am not fenced so I have many larger visitors such as bush buck, ipiti, otters, monitor lizards (huge beggars) porcupines etc . Monkeys, well you cannot keep them out the same goes for the hyraxes and the bush babies (that keep me up at night with their blood curdling yells).

Come visit.

Answer 7

I honestly have many feeders interior the backyard yet in simple terms some would be captivating to the birds. in the process the summer season even nevertheless much less hungry, they'll are available super numbers. I honestly have stumbled on that the area of the feeders (nuts in specific) has been an excellent ingredient interior the encouragement of the birds. The hawthorn timber in specific motivate an excellent volume of bluetits etc whilst the table and ineffective tree see very few. Cats too might nicely be a undeniable difficulty especially in a outfitted up section and additionally open areas. wait and notice yet additionally evaluate the area of the feeders and the shield around them. distinctive seed blends are obtainable for various species of birds.

Answer 8

For myself - butterflies and hummingbirds. I'm allergic to bee stings, and I don't care for ladybugs. :)

Answer 9

All of the above, the lady bugs keep Aphids from eating your flowers so you need to encourage them, the Bees polinate and the Butterflys are just beautiful in my opinion.

Answer 10

Butterflies eggs are caterpillars and will eat your plants Bees,hummingbirds, pollinate plants and do no damage
ladybugs eat bugs and are good for it
Tom

Answer 11

I have always loved hummingbirds. We have some nectar feeders on one side of our back yard that attracts them... They always seem to be around in 2's or 3's...