Sunday, September 18, 2005
In the Butterfly Garden: Blue Plumbago
I have lots of Blue Plumbago (Plumbago auriculata) in my butterfly garden. It's one of the best flowering landscape plants in Florida: cold hardy and blooming all year round with beautiful periwinkle blue flowers. It's considered a major butterfly plant because it's a host plant for the tiny blue cassius butterfly. But lately I've been seeing many species of butterflies using it as a nectar plant as well in spite of the fact that there are many of the best nectar plants for butterflies to choose from in the garden.
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Yer blog is so inspiring! We just had a landscaper rip nearly everything out of the front yard (mostly invasive trees and scorched shrubbery). The remaining life: 5 palms, 1 hibiscus and 2 blue plumbagos. I LUV these plumbagos and have decided to create a native-plant-butterfly garden around them.
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