Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Plant it and they will come Monarchs and Pollinators, 2 by coleup

coleup wrote:
Greenthumb absolutely wonderful serendipity on the Imperial! Was he still there in the am?

Made me think of one of my inspiration books from childhood "Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter as I too lived on the edge of a great wild area and collected many of its creatures or at least encountered them as I roamed the fields and woods and ponds and creeks of my back yard. Cecropias were our big moths.

Catmint, your just blooming milkweed is currasavica See Monarch Watch milkweed descriptions
http://www.monarchwatch.org/milkweed/guide/curass.htm
The tuberosa has finished blooming and the tropical is about to begin here. Also. the leaves are to my eye different (See pics below) with the tuberosa having a bend in stem and tropical just standing out from plant.
Edited to add that clicking on the pictures enables seeing the entire leaf and not just a section of each!

This message was edited Jul 29, 2014 10:11 PM