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Butterfly plants......

Posted by fayeroe on April 19, 2009, at 11:56:03

Penta

This tropical plant offers red, pink, lavender, and white blooms all summer long. It can bloom in full sun or shade and is a great container plant. Place a few pentas on the patio along with firebush and lantanas and you will have butterflies and hummingbirds all summer. Pentas do not qualify as a xeriscape plant but they are worth a little extra water. Pentas attract hornworms so keep your eyes peeled for the voracious caterpillars. The hornworm moth is a spectacular night feeder but one caterpillar can put a penta out of action for 5 or 6 weeks. Perhaps the solution is to plant enough that you can let one or two get stripped bare by the hornworm.

I bought three. They were inexpensive. My patio needs more flowering plants so I am putting them in three pots and will put them by a light purple something or the other. :-)

Last year the butterflies came for the zinnias, plumbago and the lantana. Lantana grows everywhere in Austin. In ditches, etc. I don't think that you could kill it. I buy it at the end of the season. 75 cents a container.

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