I have decided to plant a wildplant area in my garden for the local butterflies, which include:
Holly Blues
Meadow Brown
Large/Small Whites
Ringlets
Speckled Wood
Small Tortoiseshell/Peacock/Red Admiral/Comma
Orange-Tip
and occationally clouded yellows
and various moths.
So far I have got:
Birds-Foot-Trefoil 500 Seeds
Ladys Bedstraw seeds (for passing hawk moths)
Knapweed
Goldenrod (for attracting species)
Field/Devils bit scabious seeds for narrow borderd bee hawkmoths
anything else that would go well for a wildflower/butterfly garden?
Wildflowers/plants for my garden
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Wildflowers/plants for my garden
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Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
I can personally recommend 'Ragwort'
Thistle
'Alder Buckthorn
Ox Eyed Daisy
Foxglove
Anything with a scent
Thistle
'Alder Buckthorn
Ox Eyed Daisy
Foxglove
Anything with a scent
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
For orange tips you are going to need either cuckoo flower (ladies smock), garlic mustard or honesty. All are cheap and easy to grow.
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I ordered a bunch of seeds of various wild plants online and I think cuckoo flowers were one of them. I got plenty of ragwort and foxglove anyway. I have two buddleih (sp?) and they attract the butterflies, one has larger ligher purple flower heads and other has smaller dark purple heads and smells strong. I decided to get nasturshims as my dad wants to grow some cabbages/cauliflowers and that would deter the whites away from the vegis or I hope so anyway, it was bad lst year, most of the vegis got eaten by GV/Small and large white caterpillars and even moth caterpillars.
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Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
With regards to the cabbage, I read somewhere that if you grow ornamental cabbage away from the veg patch then maybe the White butterflies will go to them.
Shirley
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Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Next year you will have twice as many cabbage whites if they are feeding up on ornamental cabbages and nasturtiums as well.
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Yeah thats true, never thought of that. Getting some ornimental cabbages soon. I have some chamomile growing in the garden, usually smells nice and attracts things. Also got 7000 seeds of wild carrot, but I don't know what that will do. Got garlic mustard tooSusie wrote:Next year you will have twice as many cabbage whites if they are feeding up on ornamental cabbages and nasturtiums as well.
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