I have two buddliea and both had success. One was a smaller dark purple one that had a strong smell from it. It attracted mostly whites and night flying moths and the other buddliea on other side of the garden was a big lighter purple and had mostly nymphalids...Small Tortoiseshell, Painted Lady and Red Admiral also the occational white appeared and once a speckled wood and a few smoky wainscot appeared on it along with one Hummingbird Hawkmoth which I was pleased at. But this one was closer to the road where the moths/butterflies were coming from and the other buddliea was nearer forest and near the cabbage/brussels sprouts plants the whites were laying on, so that explains the amount of whites on them.
I also had some lavander inbetween the buddlieas which were quite a bit apart, and they attracted whites and painted ladies too. Trapping moths in garden gave me about 30 new species for me which was quite good. My dog runs around half the garden thats penned off, away from the flowering plants, so can't really do much with the garden, but bit I did have, quite sucessful. I didn't really have any failures. I had hundreds of large whites in garden, munching up brussels sprouts. I took many into rear and all managed to make adults (50) and I still have 20 large white pupae in hibernation which are alive and well. In corner of garden I had two big foxglove and a big bloody cranesbill plant, which attracted buff ermine as I found lots of their caterpillars feeding there.
If anything, the only failure I had was all the cabbages, brussels sprouts and kale were got by large/small whites. No real success in vegetable patch thats for sure.
See attached photos for what I saw this year in garden.
Thanks Lee, let's hope that this liner lasts longer than the previous one. Ponds are very rewarding.
Yeah I'd agree on ponds. The ones not far from my house have lots of surprises. One night I walked to the pond and saw an eel slithering down into it. (There is no fish in ponds or lake here) Also saw loads of blue damselflies which are always a welcomed sight as well as the newts. I also found hundreds of caddisflies from lake to, and I remember in August or september I found loads of dragonflies about there too.
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