Re: greenhouse/butterflies

Thanks Gene.....will have to check if these grow here.  Only one I've  seen 
available for butterflies other than the natives (which are hard to come  by) 
is the A. fimbriata.  I have seeds for the A. grande if you would like  some.  
I don't know if all Aristolochias have seed pods like these  (probably 
do).....they are shaped like parachutes when they open up.   Really quite ornamental, 
I think.
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast
 
In a message dated 1/24/2006 11:02:18 PM Central Standard Time,  
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

We get occasional feeding on the Aristolochia durior. It is locate on  
the garden entrance in a bit of shade and heavy soil, not doing as well as  
it could with more light and deeper soil. Perhaps that is the reason it is  
not used as much by the butterflies. However, we have A. clematitis that  got 
loose in the display beds and we leave it there between the other  containers 
... it gets stripped every late summer. We can not find the  cocoons 
though... one day everyone is fat and happy, next they have  disappeared.
We have had the local maypop one year now... it  got hit fairly heavy 
this summer. We only work with what is hardy to this  area. Wish we could 
grow some of the more exotic  pipevines.

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