Thought maybe we could post some of our favorites from this year
2011 favorites
Merry Christmas to all my DG friends!
The cats love A tuberosa gay butterflies late in the season
PS I saved lots of seeds if anyone is interested just D-mail me
Good year for tagging--we tagged 100
hoping to get news that some were found in Mexico
triplets
whoops, guess i meant twins
BST newly eclosed
Thanks Bruce for the thread. Hope you and yours had a wonderful holidays. One of the pix back in August this year.
Ooops, sorry it was so blurrrrrry.
Monarch, same day.
Now I'm getting spring fever--maybe I shouldn't have started this thread!
Time to pull out your bulb catalogs Bruce! Great pictures. I took a few the last few weeks before the freeze hit, but not wanting to fish them out yet! Hope everyone had a great Christmas too.
Hi Sheila--you are right, I have purchased several new milkweeds and nectar plants, and have wintersown some, as well as have some in the fridge in their cold/moist cycle. Not to saw I'm ready for the next season or anything!
Bruce
Hang in there Bruce. Down South, we just got our very first winter taste for the year. Thus, watching seed catalog and dreaming of spring is THE thing to do at present. Though, I collected some seeds of the wild casias, and noticed some wild MW that I planned on digging up in early spring from the wild....the pink blooming variety that I so hoped for.
Bruce, im jumping in to say, i love that first picture there! gorgeous! i was wondering what plant has the small mounds of tiny blue flowers in the edge of the bed? between the flowers that look like red salvias... and the monarch cats are so cute lol
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Bruce, im jumping in to say, i love that first picture there! gorgeous! i was wondering what plant has the small mounds of tiny blue flowers in the edge of the bed? between the flowers that look like red salvias... and the monarch cats are so cute lol
that is fairy Queen Salvia from Swallowtailseeds. The butterflies and bees love it--especially the skippers.
thanks! i really do like that bed. and thanks for sharing a new company with me, i didn't know they existed! but i am browsing through their site now. OH and i'm curious - how do you get the butterflies? do you order them and release, or do they just visit host plants?
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thanks! i really do like that bed. and thanks for sharing a new company with me, i didn't know they existed! but i am browsing through their site now. OH and i'm curious - how do you get the butterflies? do you order them and release, or do they just visit host plants?
Thanks, I liked it too.
We plant as many host, and nectar plants as we can for our region, and they come to us. The monarchs for instance will only lay eggs on members of the milkweed family. Luckily there are varieties that thrive in every zone.
Bruce
Pipevine from September...definitely my favorite from this year at my house. I can't wait for some variety again!
Russell
The Pipevine on the POB is beautiful for sure.
what a beauty Russell--I have found pipevines hard to photo, as they are very fast--that might be the best one I've seen
I know what you mean, BCH! I must have taken about 100 pictures of that particular BF to get 1 good one...Sure was fun trying to catch up with it as it flitted around the yard though.
Come on Spring! Surprisingly enough, many of my plants haven't gone dormant this year due to the warmer than normal weather we are having. Should be an interesting year for plants.
Russell
Quote from coastalzonepush :
Bruce, im jumping in to say, i love that first picture there! gorgeous! i was wondering what plant has the small mounds of tiny blue flowers in the edge of the bed? between the flowers that look like red salvias... and the monarch cats are so cute lol
Hello, I was just looking over this thread again and realized I might have answered your question wrong the first time around. The small mounding plants w/ the blue flowers are Riviera lobelia--also from the same seed company--although this variety is sold by several nurseries.