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| | From:  Jìbbs (Original Message) | Sent: 7/31/2003 2:56 PM |
don't forget to start collecting seeds..it saves loads of dosh! I cut down foxglove stems and stick them upside down in a bin liner, give them a good shake and leave them. After a few weeks the seeds can be put in a paper bag <not plastic, it rots them> or grown on in a tray of compost for next year. I am keeping my foxgloves separate now because the self seeded plants are getting out of control. Same for poppies, and the toadflax I talked about earlier, tiny little seeds. I have a lot of butterflies on the buddleia this year..lots more than last year. Tortoiseshell, peacock, cabbage white, Red Admiral and one that I don't know its name..will try and find a pic. I want a white one, so I may be taking cuttings from a friend. What a great shrub they are...easy to grow on any soil, you can hack them down to ground level every spring and they grow back to six or seven feet in one season. |
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| | | From: Jìbbs | Sent: 7/31/2003 3:06 PM |
d'oh! I thought the Red Admiral was the one that I didn't know the name of ..but I did..it's the Red Admiral, so the one that I thought was it..isn't! |
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My garden is full of red admirals. I have two wander in to my study this evening. |
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Now that NZ is well into spring the butterflies are starting to reappear, all our larger species such as the red admiral or yellow admiral have been introduced, the only native types are about as big as your thumb nail, one being a very beautiful lilac colour, we also have the monarch which I have grown swan plants for to attract them into the garden, they winter over round where I live and you can find them in huge clusters in the trees, and yes buddleia is great for attracting the butterflies I did have one but it out grow it's welcome <s> some nimrod also thought it would be a great idea to introduce the white butterfly the pest of the vege garden for ever more. |
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| | | From: Jìbbs | Sent: 10/29/2003 1:52 PM |
guess which GG bought herself a leaf sucking leccy thing and can't lift it up when its full of leaves... |
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SWAN PLANT ASCLEPIAS (Ascle'pias) 
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Asclepias fruticosa (Swan plant)
Widely planted as a food source for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Small white flowers from late spring to autumn, followed by bladder-like seed pods. 1.8 x 1m.
Alternative name Gomphocarpus fruticosus.
Good for Monarch Butterflies but the berries are poisonous !!! |
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thats it Ocker <s> I had a look for some pics of the plant but couldn't find any, also the plant it's self is quite poisonous if eaten, the only thing that is able to eat it are the Monarch caterpillars which have an immunity to it, they then benefit from this by being inedible themselfs due to a carry over of the poisons in the plant, if a bird does eat one it soon learns that it'll make it sick, so they leave them alone,  |
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| | | From: Jìbbs | Sent: 7/16/2006 12:23 PM |
Crikey! I wrote all that stuff up there three years ago!  |
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