Since Becky was asking about my plants I decided to take a couple of pictures of my garden. It's too big (54 ft x 34 ft) to get in one picture, so I took several and you can put them together to get the overall view. Ignore the weeds... I'm working on them today. lol
Terrie
#2 looking at the SE corner.
the center and towards the west where the PV are on the trellises.
The north eastern edge - the fence is to keep the dogs from smashing the plants. lol
Finally - the northwest side. The Black-eyed susan vine and the Passion vine are taking over.
Here's a list of what I've got growing:
jatropha
spinach tree
Maypop PV
Lavendar Lady PV
Penta
Calico pipevine
red, coral, blue and purple porterweed
Cassia Alata
Christmas Cassia
Dotted Horsemint
Coral Honeysuckle vine
Cape Honeysuckle
Purple Buddelia
Fennel
Rue
Coreopsis
Blue Sky vine
Plumbago
Lantana
Society Garlic
Walking Iris
Ironweed
lots of tropical Milkweed
Bulbine
I'm sure I'm missing some.... lol
Wonderful photos and a long interesting plant list! Thanks for sharing!
Yes indeed! great work, and lots of it I am sure....I love seeing other peoples BF habitats and their plant lists...
Thanks for sharing with us
TJB
I love your Water feature and wrought Iron fence with vines climbing it......beautiful!, that gives me some ideas
TJB
terrieurban, thanks for the nice tour through your bf garden! You've got a great space and a nice range of plants, you must have happy butterflies!
Thanks, everyone.
I've had more butterflies this year than ever before. And some new ones -- Queens, Polydamus STs.
TJB - the main reason for the fence was to keep my two dogs and five granddogs from breaking all my plants and leaving their "manure" where I didn't want it. lol
Luckily, my garden is beside the house so I could just fence straight across. I got the fence panels at Lowe's.
Terrie
Very beautiful!!!
WOW!!! I've been in and out of town so much this year and still have to go on the road a few more times. Do wish I could fix up my yard...it is truly overgrown with vines and shrubs that are out of control...but alas, I just can't make myself cut anything back just yet. Am going to wait until late January unless we get a freeze before then.
~ Cat
Very nice Terri. Have you been working on it long? I guess the real question I'm asking is did you come up with the ideas all at once and worked to establish the garden or was it a small start that has grown over the years as you saw plants you wanted?
Gary
Very nice. Loved the garden tour!!! And...is that a real ducky drinking from the little pond? How cute is that?
Gary - It's been ongoing for about 3-4 years. That whole area had St. Augustine grass that I removed by hand. So, it started close to the fence, then I slowly worked my way towards the center and towards the rest of the backyard. I didn't really have a plan, just wanted to attract and raise some butterflies. lol I just kinda stick things in the ground. If they don't like it there, I move them. Then a friend gave me her waterfall. I also bring home plants from our garden club, so it's just grown by bits. I work full time, so it took me a lot longer to "grow my garden".
PiggyPoo - no, that's an egret made from PVC pipe that I buy at a local plant fest. I have two of them in my yard. They don't make as big of a mess as a real one. However, I have had real ducks land and swim around in my pool. lol
Terrie
Here we go.... I finally found a "before" picture on my other computer. This picture is looking into the area where the butterfly garden is now. The picture was taken 11/13/05.
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