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Butterfly Garden
I want to expand my butterfly garden this year. I want bright colorful and
fragrant flowers...what do you suggest? What do the butterflies and hummingbirds just go wild about? Thanks in advance for any suggestions:) Angie in East Texas |
Butterfly Garden
junkyardcat wrote:
I want to expand my butterfly garden this year...what do you suggest? The butterflies in my garden really go for the cabbage and broccoli. The pheromone traps get a lot in the corn also. Oh wait! that's not a butterfly garden, it's a moth garden. Never mind......... |
Butterfly Garden
junkyardcat wrote:
I want to expand my butterfly garden this year...what do you suggest? The butterflies in my garden really go for the cabbage and broccoli. The pheromone traps get a lot in the corn also. Oh wait! that's not a butterfly garden, it's a moth garden. Never mind......... |
Butterfly Garden
What do the butterflies and
hummingbirds just go wild about? I don't get many hummingbirds (just as well with all my cats) but the most popular plant with the butterflies is the mexican sunflower. Joelle The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page - St Augustine Joelle |
Butterfly Garden
What do the butterflies and
hummingbirds just go wild about? I don't get many hummingbirds (just as well with all my cats) but the most popular plant with the butterflies is the mexican sunflower. Joelle The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page - St Augustine Joelle |
Butterfly Garden
What do the butterflies and
hummingbirds just go wild about? I don't get many hummingbirds (just as well with all my cats) but the most popular plant with the butterflies is the mexican sunflower. Joelle The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page - St Augustine Joelle |
Butterfly Garden
"junkyardcat" wrote in message
... I want to expand my butterfly garden this year. I want bright colorful and fragrant flowers...what do you suggest? What do the butterflies and hummingbirds just go wild about? Thanks in advance for any suggestions:) Angie in East Texas Try planting some lantanas and buddleias for butterflies and be sure to plant some host plants for the butterfly larvae. I'm not familiar the butterflies of your area, but a Google search should identify what is a good host for the caterpillars for the various kinds. I plant parsley, dill, and butterfly weed for our native butterflies, but many other plants also serve as hosts. BTW, a couple of flowers that attract butterflies but aren't fragrant are zinnias and Mexican heather. Put up some feeders for the humming birds with a boiled mixture of sugar water (1 cup sugar to 4 cups of water). Yes, there are a number of flowers that attract humming birds, but this is the quickest and easiest way. :) Be sure to have several feeders at widely spaced locations so that a dominant humming bird is unable to guard all of them. I usually have eight to ten hummers fighting over space at each feeder. John |
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On 16 Mar 2004 20:56:05 GMT, oaway (Joelle) wrote: What do the butterflies and hummingbirds just go wild about? I don't get many hummingbirds (just as well with all my cats) but the most popular plant with the butterflies is the mexican sunflower. Another poster suggested Mexican Heather, it also attracts lots of bees. I enjoy watching butterfly larvae and plant several larvae food plants. Some butterflies are area specific as well as being plant specific. In my area, Middle Georgia, the gulf fritillary uses passion flower (maypop) for a larvae food, but in farther South in Florida the zebra longwing lays on it. Dill, an annual, didn't work well for me because it dried up before the black swallowtails arrived, but bronze fennel is a perennial and works well. I enjoyed watching a 10" pot of curly parsley, but I fear the birds got most of the black swallowtail larvae from it since it was so exposed. I like blue anise and cypress vine for hummingbirds and I believe there are some hummers that don't go to the feeder, but the feeder is a great show. I have a lantana bed that began as 7 Miss Huff plants planted about 3' apart, now it is many plants that I keep cut back to control the size of the bed, but it attracts lots of butterfly and hummingbird moth activity during the summer. A rubythroat will occasionally dip through the lantana, but the feeder is so close most of them go for the feeder instead. I'd like to suggest a book "Butterfly Gardening for the South, by Geyata Ajilvsgi. I think she's a Texan too. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...463038-5475252 Regards, Hal |
Butterfly Garden
Hummingbirds and butterflys alike love the Mimosa tree. It is not invasive but
will shoot out roots for new little trees each year. These can easily be mowed down. Mel |
Butterfly Garden
Hummingbirds and butterflys alike love the Mimosa tree. It is not invasive but
will shoot out roots for new little trees each year. These can easily be mowed down. Mel |
Butterfly Garden
Hummingbirds and butterflys alike love the Mimosa tree. It is not invasive but
will shoot out roots for new little trees each year. These can easily be mowed down. Mel |
Butterfly Garden
Hummingbirds and butterflys alike love the Mimosa tree. It is not invasive but
will shoot out roots for new little trees each year. These can easily be mowed down. Mel |
Butterfly Garden
Hummingbirds and butterflys alike love the Mimosa tree. It is not invasive but
will shoot out roots for new little trees each year. These can easily be mowed down. Mel |
Butterfly Garden
I plant parsley, dill, and
butterfly weed for our native butterflies, but many other plants also serve as hosts. They also like Queen Ann's lace. Joelle The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page - St Augustine Joelle |
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