RE: butterfly counting
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: butterfly counting
  • From: &* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:51:20 -0400

Timing here doesn’t seem right. My Butterfly weed is always waning by the time the butterflies show up.  Still a few blooms, but past its glorious prime.

 

From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [mailto:owner-gardenchat@hort.net] On Behalf Of Donna
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2017 7:34 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] butterfly counting

 

Really need to plant butterfly weed. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_tuberosa)   Monarch need those leaves and nector to survive.  

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On Jul 29, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Kitty Morrissy <1*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

So far it’s just one Monarch and one Yellow Swallowtail.

Last year I had only a couple of Monarchs but 8 Yellow Swallowtails. I have an area that’s about 10x12 of Korean Hyssop with a sprinkling of Ox Eye and Catnip. The butterflies and the bees seemed to adore it last year so now I’ve let it get thicker than ever. I hope they come; the bees have already been busy all over it. The lone Monarch seems to go for the Verbena bonariensis.

 

Any butterflies in your area?

 

Kitty

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