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Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:24 pm
by Dave McCormick
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?
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:41 pm
by Shirley Roulston
I can personally recommend 'Ragwort'
Thistle
'Alder Buckthorn
Ox Eyed Daisy
Foxglove
Anything with a scent
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:59 pm
by Susie
For orange tips you are going to need either cuckoo flower (ladies smock), garlic mustard or honesty. All are cheap and easy to grow.
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:59 pm
by Dave McCormick
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.
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:09 pm
by Shirley Roulston
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
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:55 pm
by Susie
Next year you will have twice as many cabbage whites if they are feeding up on ornamental cabbages and nasturtiums as well.
Re: Wildflowers/plants for my garden
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:27 pm
by Dave McCormick
Susie wrote:Next year you will have twice as many cabbage whites if they are feeding up on ornamental cabbages and nasturtiums as well.
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 too