Water Gardening: What happens to frogs?, 1 by bedouin

bedouin wrote:
Butterflies! I garden for them as well, and have had an abundance. However, everything is 'relative'. I was at Fairchild Tropical Garden last Monday and strolled thorugh their 'butterfly garden'. Just incredible how many B's were flittering from one flower to another. An excellent idea I saw there: The Polydamus butterflies only to to Aristolochia vines and since the vines are pretty invasive, to say the least, its hard to stake them up (very fragile) and contain them. They used the palm trunks as the holdstructure for 'chicken wire'. Wrapped the C.W. around the trunks to about hmm, I'm guessing here...7-10' high. (2 palms) The vies were so thick around the trunks and the larvae were sooo fat and happy! Their plants are beautifully laid out with lots of room to mature - being on a smallish lot, mine are 'squashed' and they have to survive here as best they can. I inclined to get rid of more grass and make a pathway of more plants just as they have done. Beautifully arranged. When I go next Monday, I'll take my camera along and post some pics.

I too cant tell the difference re frogs - except the horrible Buffo Toads which are so very dangerous for animals.

MerryMaryhere I'd love to get some native frogs into myponds. How about sharing the cost of them - but of course I dont know if they will survive the additional travel time. Just a thought!

I drove from Ft. Lauderdale to Naples through the Everglades a few weeks ago and was amazed at the extent of the burnt area. I always thought the Everglades consisted of a massive 'sheet' of water but of course that is not so. The 'Hammocks' are everwhere and a foot or 2 in height makes a huge difference there, so there is a lot of 'dry land'. Plus there are residential areas within the Everglades so I should not have been surprised at the extent of the fires! Still, I was!

Yes, I've heard of the bee problem. I think there is a also a virus also attacking them. With the African Bees interbreeding with the more gentle honey bees, who knows what will be the end result. Nature normally takes care of many of these types of problems but man certainly makes Nature's job well night impossible!