RE: beautiful site...

Oh caryopteris do great here. Like Howard Garrett (aka the Dirt Doctor)
says - very underused - should be used more. Especially since they're
fairly drought tolerant once established. I wish John would quit
weed-whacking the two I gave Pat this Spring. ugh.


  
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From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:55:49 -0400

>Pam, my caryopteris has come back 3 years in a row now and I sure hope it
>continues to like its home!  Your should not have any trouble getting
>through a Texas winter.
>
>Blessings,
>
>Bonnie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
>Of Pamela J. Evans
>Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 11:40 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] beautiful site...
>
>Bonnie - those are the black swallowtails I adore so much and since you have
>fennel - they will come.
>That's why I planted the fennel and lots of parsley - it's the host food
>plant for both kinds of swallowtails - my favorites! I have both kinds
>also and just love 'em. The adults are all over my caryopteris shrubs.
>Don't know if they're hardy there, but if they are - worth the
>investment. The hummers like them too.
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date:  Sun, 3 Aug 2003 06:38:27 -0400
>
>>I have to share some of the sights in my garden the last two days with
>folks
>>who can understand why it tickles me so much.  Friday evening (between
>>storms) I took Izzie, the bulldog, out for her constitutional and Bill
>>called my attention to a monarch collecting nectar from various plants in
>>the bed to the right of our driveway near the street.  It kept flirting
>with
>>my milkweed (swamp milkweed, asclepiad-sp?) so I'm hopeful it might lay
>eggs
>>upon the milkweed so I may enjoy more monarchs.  Monarchs have been very
>>rare in my area for some time, so it really was a joy to see it.
>>
>>Speaking of swamp milkweed, I knew I had a pod split and spread it's seed
>>last fall, but I hadn't seen any more pop up in the bed, but I just found
>>about 3 plants had wedged themselves at the edge of a "wild" forested area
>>near the property line in back!  Maybe it'll bring even more monarchs?  I
>>sure hope so.  Since I don't use bug killer products in my planting beds or
>>the yard itself, I know the yard is caterpillar friendly.
>>
>>Then today, I took the phone out to Bill to talk with someone who had
>called
>>as he was cutting grass.  I turned back toward the house and spied two
>>swallowtail butterflies in the "butterfly garden."  One of them was a tiger
>>swallowtail with the normal black and yellow pattern, but the other was a
>>black except for the bottom section of wing on both sides.  That area was
>an
>>iridescent blue.  Both of them flittered together, landing side by side on
>>server coneflowers growing there, not quite long enough for me to get my
>>camera (of course!) but they flew off to another yard together as well.  Is
>>it possible that the black butterfly was the male counterpart to a female
>>yellow tiger swallowtail?  Any ideas?   
>>
>>Oh, and I think I have a datura blooming!  The scent really is
>intoxicating!
>>How wonderful!  It isn't as tall as I thought it would be at about 18", but
>>the beauty of that white trumpet flower clothed in that magnificent perfume
>>is a little heaven on earth.
>>
>>It doesn't take much to make me happy:  decent soil, some plants to tend
>and
>>weed, some mulch and compost and for the good Lord to bless me with "flying
>>flowers" is a bonus!
>>
>>Blessings,
>>
>>Bonnie
>>
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>Kemp TX/zone 8A
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