Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: How much rue will a black swallowtail cat eat?, 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
My rue plants get to be about 24" tall. They sometimes flop over because they get too heavy :o) I try to remember to use garden stakes to hold them up but too often forget - and oh well, the butterflies find them anyways.

~ Cat

Okay, went outside and took a photo of the larger rue plant - this one is close to 30 inches tall - parts of it have flopped over as well :o) I'd put a small 4" pot of rue into a shallow plastic tub with the intention of clipping cuttings to root but just never got around to it and as you can see it grew quite tall! I've got about two dozen BST cats on this plant now and I've added a couple of small pots of fennel to the tub just in case. Have another potted rue plant that is about 15" tall kept shaded by one of my citrus trees that I found more BST cats on :o)

This message was edited May 18, 2008 8:09 PM