Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The third paragraph to the third subheading, Projected image of a sensory garden, considers that "The plants selected for the garden will include many that will attract butterflies and bees."
Sensory gardens get my admiration and respect for the hard work going into them and the human and sentient consequences going through them.
A sensory garden for butterflies by day simultaneously sometimes functions by night as a firefly, moon, moth garden by night.
The following information from Ben Pfeiffer's Firefly conservation & research site may be helpful for such a day- and night-sensory garden:
Grasses
Big sacaton (Sporobolus wrightii)
Deer grass (Muhlenbergia rigens)
Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)
Inland sea oats or Broadleaf uniola (Chasmanthium latifolium)
Lindheimer muhly (Muhlenbergia linheimeri)
Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Vine mesquite (Hopia obtusa)
Virginia wildrye (Elymus virginicus)
Forbs
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Frogfruit (phlya nodiflora)
Frostweed (Verbesina virginica)
Goldenrod (Solidago altissima)
Late boneset (Eupatorium serotinum)
Lindheimer senna (Senna lindheimeriana)
River fern (Thelypteris ovata var. lindheimeri)
Tall aster/Spiny aster (Aster praealtus and Aster Spinosa)
Vines
Alamo vine (Merremia dissecta)
Dewberry (Rubus trivialis)
Morning glory (Lpomoea sp.)
Purple leatherflower (Clematis pitcheri)
Trees and Woody Plants
American Elder (Sambucus canadensis)
Bur (Quercus macrocarpa), Chinquapin (Quercus muehlenbergii), Live (Quercus virginiana), Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii)
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Cottonwood (Populus sp.)
Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Dogwood (Cornus drummondii)
Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor)
Elm (Ulmus sp.)
Goldenball Leadtree (Leucaena retusa)
Green, Mexican, Velvet ash (Fraxinus sp.)
Hackberry (Celtis sp.)
Little Walnut (Juglans microcarpa)
Mexican Buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa)
Pecan (Carya illinionensis)
Soapberry (Sapindus saponaria)
Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Wafer Ash (Ptelea trifoliata)
DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024