Hi Anchal, I'm sorry I typed out a long message for you but after clicking on Preview, Yahoo seems to have gobbled it up. Oh well! To repeat : I'm no expert on host plants. In fact that is one of the reasons I joined this group, so that I could find out more about them. To attract butterflies to an area, Lantana is fantastic. And after the berries show up, they attract birds too so you can bird-watch as well as butterfly-watch. Curry-leaf plant (Murraya koenigii) is favoured by the Common Mormon. I always see some around my curry-patta plants. Grass Yellows are partial to my French Marigold plants but I think the ordinary marigolds are just as good, if not better. The Pink Cassia tree produces a sap that attracts all the butterflies in the area. I posted about it in my blog . Check out : http://the-urban-gardener.blogspot.com/2008/11/garden-tea-party-butterflies-invited.html Its amazing! I've never seen so many butterflies in one spot before. Several of our common plants are favourites : Cosmos, Ixora, Pentas, Marigold, Zinnia. I'm sure there hundreds of wild plants which are favoured by them too but I dont know much about those. Another thing, make sure water is available in your butterfly garden. Not a deep pool or anything, something shallow. Or even a damp patch of mud. They love that. And I know I dont need to say this, but I'll just repeat it anyway : no chemicals on your plants please. Hope this helped.
Sunita p.s. I'm glad you liked my blog enough to think of subscribing to it. If you have a blog of your own, you can choose to Follow mine (just click on the Follow button in the side-bar). Or you can choose to Subscribe instead (you'll find the box to click on lower down in the side-bar) --- In [email protected], anchal sondhi <anchal.t...@...> wrote: > > Hello Sunita, > > Great to get to know u thru this group. > > I am a butterfly enthusiast and interested in planting a butterfly garden. > need all help that i can get from you. interested in enrolling in your blog > regularly > > have sufficient plot for wild as well as indigenous plants. currently > planted vegetable patch too with cabbage for the butters. Every day cabbage > white come on it and hangs around for hours. > > kalanchoe lots of them and red Pierrot visits it regularly but don't think > has laid eggs as yet. > > Nibu and Kadi patta planted and Newsthurim for some butters (don't know > which one) > > have wild grass too which has decreased due to hot months approaching but > will pick up once monsoons arrive. > > Can i have list of plants common and Latin name for butterfly food and > nectar plants. > > Thanks in advance. by the way is to too much to ask for ur contact no ? > cheers > anchal sondhi > M-09412992728 > Dehradun > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, JAMES OVERTON <maxover...@...>wrote: > > > Nice photos Sunita! > > > > Max > > > > > > > > > > Novels by Max and/or Ariana Overton http://www.maxoverton.com > > > > The Lion of Scythia Trilogy - EPPIE winners 2005 and 2006 > > The Glass House Trilogy (Eppie finalists), A Cry of Shadows, The Devil is > > in the Details, Trapdoor, Tapestry > > Scarab - Akhenaten (Book 1 of the Amarnan Kings), Scarab - Smenkhkare (Book > > 2 of the Amarnan Kings), > > Scarab - Tutankhamen (Book 3 of the Amarnan Kings), Rakshasa, Glass > > Continuum, Ascension > > Works in Progress: Scarab - Ay, and Scarab - Horemheb (Books 4 & 5 of the > > Amarnan Kings), Djinn > > > > > > Also check out http://julesphotographiccreations.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To: [email protected] > > From: arav...@... > > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:27:18 +0530 > > Subject: [ButterflyIndia] FW: Introduction : Sunita > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sunita Mohan > > *Sent:* Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:32 PM > > *To:* ButterflyIndia Moderator > > *Subject:* Introduction : Sunita > > > > > > > > Name : Sunita > > > > > > > > City : Mumbai > > > > > > Interest / Expertise : A lot of interest but hardly any expertise, I'm > > afraid. I publish a garden blog called The Urban Gardener ( > > http://the-urban-gardener.blogspot.com) . Surprisingly (or maybe not!), > > some of my more interesting posts and photos are about the butterflies I > > find in my garden. > > > > > > What you want to get form this Group : Mainly help in identification, of > > the butterflies as well as their caterpillars and host plants. If I know the > > host plants , I can grow more of them and also stop weeds which act as > > hosts, from getting destroyed in my garden. > > > > Also, my blog has quite a few readers visiting it and I would love to > > make it more interesting with as much information as possible. Who knows, > > this may even help to spark interest in our butterflies in someone who reads > > it. > > > > > > > > How did you come to know about this group : From Mr. Isaac Kehimkar whom I > > had contacted requesting help in identifying some butterflies. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Anchal Sondhi > Kalpavriksh > Villa no 49, Rajpur Road Enclave, > Dhoran Khas, Parwana doon, > Dehradun > res: 0135-225283, M-09412992728 > email anchal.t...@... > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
