Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My Virginia garden, 0 by pennefeather

pennefeather wrote:
Wow, you are creative Tobasco!

I am hoping to plant three types of milkweed next week, so I should be covered. I went on a butterfly website yesterday, I have no idea which website it was, but they recommended a variety of milkweed. I am putting in asclpecias incarnata, curassavica, and tuberosa. I have no clue as to where I am going to put these. I guess I'll be expanding my beds again.

I also added some parsley - just in case. I love tithonia, but I don't have any. This is on my list of annuals to grow from seed next year. Here we are in the middle of summer, and I am looking forward to next year!

I was wondering today about fertilizing my garden. I switched just this spring away from chemicals after reading alot of the information on the organic thread. I have been using alfalfa tea, and a combination fish emulsion/kelp fertilizer. Hopefully, this wont pose any problems to the butterflies. I was actually trying to spray the plants today that the larger butterflies weren't on. There are so many little brown and white ones that I couldn't avoid them. None of them seemed too concerned, but I just want to get someone else's opinion.

Here's the gang today hanging out.