Posted by Sacha on July 25, 2011, 1:22 pm
is now flowering and was covered in bees and butterflies in a couple of
parts of the garden today. I really recommend it to anyone wanting
both to attract wildlife and to enjoy an attractive plant. I don't
know why it's so rarely named on "Plants for wildlife" lists.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Jake on July 25, 2011, 2:08 pm
>is now flowering and was covered in bees and butterflies in a couple of
>parts of the garden today. I really recommend it to anyone wanting
>both to attract wildlife and to enjoy an attractive plant. I don't
>know why it's so rarely named on "Plants for wildlife" lists.
Maybe because it can be invasive and suffers the common title of
"weed"?
For some reason, I can never get this to grow. Next door neighbours,
on the other hand, had a massive patch in their front garden until a
week ago when they dug it up because it was spreading too quickly and
choking everything else.
Cheers
Jake
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Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.
www.rivendell.org.uk
Posted by Sacha on July 25, 2011, 5:24 pm
>
>> is now flowering and was covered in bees and butterflies in a couple of
>> parts of the garden today. I really recommend it to anyone wanting
>> both to attract wildlife and to enjoy an attractive plant. I don't
>> know why it's so rarely named on "Plants for wildlife" lists.
>
> Maybe because it can be invasive and suffers the common title of
> "weed"?
>
> For some reason, I can never get this to grow. Next door neighbours,
> on the other hand, had a massive patch in their front garden until a
> week ago when they dug it up because it was spreading too quickly and
> choking everything else.
>
> Cheers
> Jake
> ==============================================
> Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
> in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.
>
> www.rivendell.org.uk
How strange. It's never shown any signs of being even slightly
invasive here. I wonder if it's invasive in wetter conditions or
something like that? The other thing that was covered in bees today
and I do mean 'covered', is Eucryphia.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Janet Tweedy on July 25, 2011, 2:28 pm
writes
>is now flowering and was covered in bees and butterflies in a couple of
>parts of the garden today. I really recommend it to anyone wanting
>both to attract wildlife and to enjoy an attractive plant. I don't
>know why it's so rarely named on "Plants for wildlife" lists.
Which colour do you have Sacha? I think the white is nicer than the
reddish one but each to his own. It does make a very large clump but as
you say the bees love it. Not as much as the scrophularia though and the
alliums are covered in hover flies!
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk
Posted by Sacha on July 25, 2011, 5:26 pm
>> is now flowering and was covered in bees and butterflies in a couple of
>> parts of the garden today. I really recommend it to anyone wanting
>> both to attract wildlife and to enjoy an attractive plant. I don't
>> know why it's so rarely named on "Plants for wildlife" lists.
>
>
> Which colour do you have Sacha? I think the white is nicer than the
> reddish one but each to his own. It does make a very large clump but as
> you say the bees love it. Not as much as the scrophularia though and
> the alliums are covered in hover flies!
Our Alliums are long gone but they were certainly a hover fly and bee
magnet. We have the sort of red/purple Eupatorium and I rather like it
because of the plants it's near, as well as its own form and colour.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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>parts of the garden today. I really recommend it to anyone wanting
>both to attract wildlife and to enjoy an attractive plant. I don't
>know why it's so rarely named on "Plants for wildlife" lists.