Zinnias are the best butterfly flower.
Well, maybe not THE best, but the best we have for sure. I harvested the seeds for these flowers from last year's crop of zinnias, and some really neat things have happened. I tried to get mostly red flower seeds - the red was very pretty. What I ended up with was some interesting cross-pollinated flowers: pink with yellow spots, yellow with orange spots, pinkish/orangish combos that weren't there last year. Very unique! And the butterflies love them! It has been an added bonus that just when both the flowers and butterflies are getting bigger, Jason is at home to see them - and take pictures of them. I believe this will be an annual thing for us - who knows what the flowers will look like after three or four generations.
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