Butterfly Garden Flowers

Flower Type	Description	State of Health (1 month after planting)	State of Health (3 months after planting)
Lantana (Lantana camara)	dainty beautiful blossoms	doing well (TexZen Gardens)	blossoms died
Gold Butterfly Weed (Asclepias curas)	tall plant with small yellow blossoms	doing fairly well (Great Outdoors)	doing quite well!
Phlox Pink Thrift (Phlox subulata)	tiny purple blossoms	blossoms have died (Great Outdoors)	blossoms died
Bulbine orange (Bulbine frutescens)	tall yellow flowers with long thin leaves	doing well (Great Outdoors)	doing well
Swan River Daisy blue (Brachycome	tiny purple blossoms with yellow centers	doing well (Great Outdoors)	blossoms died
Kimono red and orange (celosia)	magnificent bursts of color	doing quite well	doing quite well!
Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber)	tall plant with tiny pink blossoms	doing well and growing fast	blossoms mostly died
Strawberry Parfait (Dianthus)	magnificent delicate strawberry blossoms	doing quite well (TexZen Gardens)	blossoms died
Marigold (Bonanza Bolero)	thick yellow and orange showy flowers	blossoms are dying	entire plants completely died! (too much sun?)
Priscilla (petunia hybrid)	sweet-smelling magnificent delicate purple blossoms	doing well (TexZen Gardens)	doing quite well!
Sundial Mix (Portulaca)	delicate rose-like blossoms	doing fairly well (some blossoms died)	doing quite well!
Butterfly Blue (Scabiosa columbario)	lovely purple blossoms	doing well	blossoms mostly died

The Hummingbird Area

Red Salvia greggil	tall plant with tiny red blossoms	doing well (Great Outdoors)
Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)	Absolutely lovely blossoms on this vine	doing fairly well (TexZen Gardens)
Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans)	Beautiful delicate flowers on a tall vine	doing fairly well (TexZen Gardens)

A Few Links I Found Useful:
(thanks to Mike Quinn for his expertise)

http://www.perennials.com/seehowto.html?item=2 (Excellent information)

http://colleenscorner.com/Bfly.html (Great place to start)

http://www.npsot.org/Austin/sources.html (Austin native plant sources)

http://www.gardeninglaunchpad.com/valbf/valbflyart.html (Butterfly gardening with native Texas plants)

http://www.sabot.org/natives/butterfly.html (Plant list from San Antonio Botanical Gardens)

http://www.travisaudubon.org/Backyard/habbutfl.htm (Travis Audubon Society tips)

http://www.tmm.utexas.edu/tnhc/invertzoology/butterfly/bfgarden.html (Central Texas butterfly gardening)

http://www.butterflyhouse.org/gardening.html (Butterfly gardening facts)

http://www.main.org/abf/abf_plnt.htm (Recommended plants)

http://www.main.org/abf/abf_pix.htm (Great photos!)