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Best plants/flowers for encouraging bees/butterflies into my garden

I'm redoing my garden and would like to leave a part of it wild to encourage bees, butterflies and ladybirds into it but haven't a clue what to plant. Thanks Andrea P.S If you know of any plants that would discourage wasps and next doors cat, that'd be fab too! Lol. I have nothing against cats usually but, there's 3 of them and I have a toddler that likes nothing more than " Helping " with the gardening! Ooo, I love nightscented stock and already have lavender!

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1. Ask for flowers with tons of pollen, sugar water spred on clean soil helps.
2. Well, Butterfly bushes attract tons of Butterflys and loom pretty too. Im not sure about bees tho, but they are usually attracted to anything.
3. it's too bigger question.bees are attracted to flowers,all kinds.butterflies need a good summer with not much rain to breed,but buddlia is their favourite.Wasps cannot be controlled and pus from next door,doesn't do any harm
4. what looks fabulous,grows quite hardy,smells devine...jasmine find an appropriate one for your garden ( theres a huge variety) we have star jasmine....just beautiful ohh and lavendar if you have the climate for it xx good luck
5. Budleia - available in different colours
6. The best plant to encourage butterflies into your garden is the buddleia. It grows easily and quickly. Butterfly numbers have decreased so much over the past decade. We must do everything we can to reverse that. If I can think of any other plants I will send another message. We have lots of honeysuckle in our garden, it flowers in June and September, it smells wonderful, and the bees love it.
7. Most flowering plants draw bees and butterflies. Mimosa trees are great, Trumpet vine, Passion vine, butterfly bushes, Cone flowers, daylilies, beebalm, clematis, Hibiscus, asiatic lilies.... and many more. I have all of these in my yard and there are bees and butterflies, along with dozens of hummingbirds. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2331354770044108161LkkFyP?vhost=home-and-garden
8. Night scented stock and honeysuckle, to keeps cats away a curry plant should help so I'm told.
9. I'm in Central Florida. When I planted a few Pentas a couple of years ago, the butterflies were all over the place.
10. hi, first plant a patch of catnip away frome the garden area. plant you a must have butterfly bush, or six. they come in many colors and look great away from a foundation so they will deveolp naturally. cone flowers are nice in sunny areas. use lots of marigolds and zinnia. work in a fancy japanese maple for good measure. get the deep cut leaves for the best effect. you will need a place to hang your humming bird feeders darling. and do not forget the wilder climbing rose's and of course the fragrent tea olive. paulie
11. Buddleias attract butterflies
12. lavender attracts all the bees you could want, my lavender attracts a amazing moth called a humming-bird-hawk mouth. for bees fox gloves are quite good but only when there flowering. I'm not sure about butterfly's.