Hello all I have recently shifted to Dehradun and have a small garden behind my house. size 50ft by 10ft. sunny and gets full morning sun. not too familiar with Dehradun climate or type of plants that do well here. i wish to plant only Indigenous plants and not exotic if possible. And i know for garden plants u normally get only exotics. but its a challenge and i am sure to be able to get some Indian varieties of plants that attract butterflies. have common butterflies of India by Issac which has the food plant list of common butterflies, but they are mostly Latin names and nursery people are familiar with local names so can anyone help me with that.
would love some native and local names which are easy to procure. Thanks in advance for all those who spare time to guide me. rgds Anchal Sondhi member -Kalpavriksh Villa no49, Rajpur Raod Enclave, (Uppal Towers), behind IT park, Dhoran Khas, Parawanadoon, Dehradun. Res 0135-2115283 M-9412992728 (Anchal) email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Been in Pune for 14 yrs so very familiar what attracts buuterflies there. On 20 Sep 2008 04:22:18 -0000, Meena Subramaniam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use several other host plants... > These include Pentas, an extremely floriferous species and Impatiens. > Impatiens seem to attaract mormons aplenty. Yet another favorite is > Aristolochia, tww of which I have in my garden. Keeping som,e fresh cowdung > slurry seems to work wonders as Bflies like the salts. > Meenakshi > > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 Chitra Shanker wrote : > >There are two ways to approach a butterfly garden > >1. You can grow the host plants such as *Asclepias, Bryophyllum, neerium > >etc *or > >2.grow flowering plants of compositae family mostly like cosmos, > Eupatorium > >and others > >3. fruit pieces are also left out to attract butterflies > >Chitra > >On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:50 PM, K.Jayaraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > I have a garden of size 30 feet by 70 feet. Can any of our group > > > member help me to make it into a butterfly garden. I need types of > > > plants required and layout plan. The garden has only partial sunlight > > > as there is a big tree near it. > > > Regards > > > Jay > > > > > > > > > > > > [image: > IN]<http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/click.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]/2625139_2617412/2620527/1?PARTNER=3&OAS_QUERY=null> > > > -- Anchal Sondhi Pune Tree Watch Kalpavriksh www.kalpavriksh M-9823053374 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
