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Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
Hello:
I live in CA, Zone 9. I will be helping a friend this spring plant in her backyard and I will need to include some shade loving plants as well as we want to attract butterflys. She has a large redwood and a large palm tree in the area we want to work in. The area does get a lot of sahde but some sun. Suggestions, ideas? Thanks! |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
On Feb 11, 2:51 pm, "Butterrose" wrote:
Hello: I live in CA, Zone 9. I will be helping a friend this spring plant in her backyard and I will need to include some shade loving plants as well as we want to attract butterflys. She has a large redwood and a large palm tree in the area we want to work in. The area does get a lot of sahde but some sun. Suggestions, ideas? Thanks! Redwood and a plam? Talk about night and day. A picture would help a lot but I would suggest Heuchera http://www.prairiestarflowers.com/he...erry%20Ice.htm it comes in purple foliage to green and pink red and white flowers depending on leaf color. Asparagus fern sprengeri and or myersi http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/dbpages/ asparagus_sprengeri.html http://toptropicals.com/pics/garden/...aragus5716.jpg In the sunny spots scabiosa is a great plant http://www.uib.es/servei/comunicacio...iposa)_jpg.jpg |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
On Feb 11, 2:51 pm, "Butterrose" wrote:
Hello: I live in CA, Zone 9. I will be helping a friend this spring plant in her backyard and I will need to include some shade loving plants as well as we want to attract butterflys. She has a large redwood and a large palm tree in the area we want to work in. The area does get a lot of sahde but some sun. Suggestions, ideas? Thanks! Hi Rose It is going to be difficult to attract butterflies into to the shade of a redwood, as BFs are sun lovers. Therefore, most of the flowers they love are also. Anyway, here's a list of things in my zone 9, NorCal garden that BFs like. You can see what you can do with them. (Don't forget containers which can be moved in and out of the sun) Buddleia, Butterfly Bush (can take some shade) Lantana Any flat, daisy-like flower: Zinnia, Black eyed Susan, Aster, Echinacea, Cosmos etc Verbena Phlox Salvias especially blue/purple Milkweed (butterfly weed) Goldenrod Yarrow Good luck with your freinds garden Emilie NorCal |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
Not quite sure if these are shade loving, but for butterflies I was always
successful with planting Buddelhia (Butterfly Bush) and also Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia-Torch). "Butterrose" wrote in message oups.com... Hello: I live in CA, Zone 9. I will be helping a friend this spring plant in her backyard and I will need to include some shade loving plants as well as we want to attract butterflys. She has a large redwood and a large palm tree in the area we want to work in. The area does get a lot of sahde but some sun. Suggestions, ideas? Thanks! |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
Butterrose wrote:
Hello: I live in CA, Zone 9. I will be helping a friend this spring plant in her backyard and I will need to include some shade loving plants as well as we want to attract butterflys. She has a large redwood and a large palm tree in the area we want to work in. The area does get a lot of sahde but some sun. Suggestions, ideas? Thanks! The blooms come late in the year - but I love my Firespike. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1854/index.html Carl -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net) |
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I can recommend Echinacea Purperea,or maybe some sort of Hosta,although I dont know if butterflys would go for that,but the Echinacea seems to attract them into my garden in central England. Stokie. BE LOYAL,BE PROUD,BE STOKE. |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
A minor caution. I put in some attractive-to-butterfly plants and was a
little dismayed to find that the bee to butterfly ratio was about 100 to 1. I didn't mind the bees, but some visitors did. All the advertised plants seem to work; just don't go overboard would be my advice. |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
Rob expounded:
A minor caution. I put in some attractive-to-butterfly plants and was a little dismayed to find that the bee to butterfly ratio was about 100 to 1. I didn't mind the bees, but some visitors did. All the advertised plants seem to work; just don't go overboard would be my advice. Nectar plants will attract all pollinators, and the bees need everything they can get right now. They're under siege from so many angles. -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
Rob wrote in
. 11: A minor caution. I put in some attractive-to-butterfly plants and was a little dismayed to find that the bee to butterfly ratio was about 100 to 1. I didn't mind the bees, but some visitors did. All the advertised plants seem to work; just don't go overboard would be my advice. Go over to your neighbor's lawn late at night and spread some white clover seed. Perhaps the bees will go there instead. :) |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
I can't do that to the neighbor - he would take it as retaliatory. He
still hasn't forgiven me for accusing him years ago of chemical warfare, i.e. Roundup on a windy day. Actually, as Ann noted, there are fewer bees around lately so the "problem" is less, to the detriment of the bees, of course. FragileWarrior wrote in : Go over to your neighbor's lawn late at night and spread some white clover seed. Perhaps the bees will go there instead. :) |
Shade and Butterfly loving plants and flowers
On Feb 28, 9:11 am, Rob wrote:
I can't do that to the neighbor - he would take it as retaliatory. He still hasn't forgiven me for accusing him years ago of chemical warfare, i.e. Roundup on a windy day. Actually, as Ann noted, there are fewer bees around lately so the "problem" is less, to the detriment of the bees, of course. FragileWarrior wrote : Go over to your neighbor's lawn late at night and spread some white clover seed. Perhaps the bees will go there instead. :)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - article about disappearing bees http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/bu...ees.html?ex=13 30232400&en=3d5500b8a37b8976&ei=5090&partner=rss userland&emc=rss or http://tinyurl.com/2pu6ct |
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