CLOSED: Aristolochia Ringens.Polydamas Butterfly food. 12" flowers.

I'd like to have butterfly plant seeds in exchange for these butterfly plant seeds. 10 for 10.

The Polydamas Swallowtail Butterfly (Battus polydamas lucayus) lays its eggs on this vine. The larvae eat the leaves. The Aristolochia vines are the only vines the Polydamas butterflies will use so its important to have a few of these vines in the garden if you'd like to see these beautiful butterflies visiting. My first vine was eaten to the ground. I now keep a few of them in the garden to ensure the plants survival. The Pipevine flower is 12" long. Quite a sight to behold.

My photo collage is a combination of A. Ringens and A. Gibertii flowers, plus larvae and a seed pod.

What kind of butterfly plants? Larva host? Nectar? Do you happen to want cassia bicapsularis seed? Zinnia? I have a lot of packets of zinnia. I plant what I can in with other things in whiskey barrels,but can't do a lot of bedding type things because of the gophers and rabbits. Everything else here is individually planted in wire.
Sherry

oh i would love to try some of these seeds would you be interested in columbine seedsi have butterfly weed blooming right now so it will be awhile before i can get any seeds from it plmk or what else you might be looking for thxs

Oh Sherry, I understand ........... we are having to deal with iguanas here! Some fools had them for pets and let them out when they became too much to handle. Now all over south Fl. we are having to cope with these pests! For the first time we actually had one on our dock yesterday and my DH and I ran out to catch it - it was too fast for us and lept into the canal and swam faster than I'm able to! Drat! it would have made excellent compost!

Sherry and moretz, add the A. R. id to the back of the envelope you mail me and I'll add some. I went out this morning and found I have a newly ripened crop opening up! Sometimes it just doesnt rain, but it Pours!!!

i sent my enve out yesterday so i cant write it on it boohoo lol

Iguanas! LOl! Just when I think I've heard of every critter a gardener could have to deal with....I'd love to have them outside here, but that's because I don't know the damage they can do. Foolish question----do they eat greens? And would they make excellent compost because of iguana guano? Or you'd like to chop them up and make compost out of them?! How large do they get there unrestrained by captivity?
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P.S......any other seeds you come up with before sending my next envie out, I would love to have. Yes, I'll put the seed names on the envelope.

This message was edited Jun 26, 2007 4:08 PM

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Cruising around the canals in the Fort Lauderdale area, we see these monsters sitting on the docks every time we are out. They entered our neighbourhood via a new 'law' stipulating that if new docks are put in on private properties, fish 'hatcheries' have to be built. e.g large, flatish sandstone rocks are layered one on top of the other. Perfect for the *))_^$$ things to sun themselves in the morning as they are cold blooded. Since then the largest new 'hatchers' over 3 years old now, could be part of a 'tourist route', one sees so many in the early morning, just lying there. Very intimidating! Where are the hunters of this world, I'd like to know. I dont hunt, but I'm changing my mind evertime I see one of these dinosaurs . They LOVE vegetation, starting with hibiscus plants. The one on our dock was about 9" long and I ran pretty fast to get hold of it - but it was m.. u ..c ..h faster and escaped.

Compost? Chop the horrors up, is what I say! Maybe they taste like chicken! Now there's a thought........I had a pic of a Huge one we came across, but I cant find it...........so I've included internet sites above. Can you imagine waking up to find one of them in ones house.........