Specialty Gardening: Make a difference: Plant a Pipevine!, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Hi, Cottagers!

Wanted to share this.... (-:

I was googling about vines for butterflies and found this article about conservation of the Pipevine Swallowtail and I thought DG Cottage Gardeners might be interested in knowing how they could grow a pretty vine in the cottage garden and make a difference to the environment:

http://www.nababutterfly.com/pipevine_dream_project.html

They say Pipevines are traditional vines for Victorian Porches and that's why I thought of the Cottage Garden Forum. ( I think the butterfly garden forum people already plants lots of pipevine!).

Any way, I thought some of you might find this project interesting and worthwhile.

Here are some photos of the pipevine ST oviposting on aristolochia (thanks to cotinus' flickr photos): http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcoin/103238077/

Also, If you know of a good source for pipevines, especially A. 'serpentaria', please tell us! t.