The Crafty Gardener. Becca Anderson
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Название: The Crafty Gardener
Автор: Becca Anderson
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Кулинария
isbn: 9781633538719
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House Blessing: Farmers’ Market Potpourri
Even if you don’t have a have a citrus orchard out back, you can still make your own home-freshening mix of potpourri. Even better, you can make lemonade, limeade, or orange juice, then slice up the remainder of the fruit. Lay the rind in slices on a big sheet pan and let them dry. Add dried rose petals, bunches of lilac, lavender, and rosemary, or mint for a wonderful, fresh scent. Tuck into muslin bags and tie up with a pretty and colorful ribbon, and you have a lovely all-occasion gift for housewarmings and holidays. Truly a blessing for any home.
The only conclusion I have ever reached is that I
love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
—Aldo Leopold
Butterfly Haven
If you want to increase the butterfly population in your yard, there’s a wide variety of flowers that will attract them, including common yarrow, New York aster, Shasta daisy, coreopsis, horsemint, lavender, rosemary, thyme, butterfly bush, shrubby cinquefoil, common garden petunia, verbena, pincushion flowers, cosmos, zinnia, globe amaranth, purple coneflower, sunflowers, lupine, and delphinium. In creating a butterfly-friendly place, consider that they also need a wind protection, a quiet place to lay eggs, and water to drink.
If you want to see a butterfly garden before you get started, many botanical societies have them. In Washington, DC, the Smithsonian just opened one adjacent to the National Museum of Natural History. Good guides include: The Butterfly Garden by Mathew Tekulsky (Harvard Common Press) and Butterfly Gardening by Xerces Society/Smithsonian Institution (Sierra Club Books)
Butterfly Bush
There are somewhere around a hundred species of Buddleia, commonly referred to as the butterfly bush. The colorful flowers, ranging from white to pink, orange, and purple, attract an assortment of butterflies, including commas, mourning cloaks, sulphurs, monarchs, and several species of swallowtail.
Milkweed
For those wanting to attract monarch butterflies to their gardens, nothing does the trick like planting milkweed, the host food plant for monarch caterpillars. Milkweed also attracts the viceroy, Baltimore checkerspot, mourning cloak, queen, great spangled fritillary, zabulon skipper, and question mark butterflies.
Parsley
A favorite among culinary herbs, parsley is a primary host food for the black swallowtail butterfly larva.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa is a host food for clouded yellow, orange sulphur, and Karner blue butterflies.
Fennel
Also known as sweet anise, fennel is another favorite host food for many swallowtail caterpillars.
Clover
Common white or red clover will attract a whole host of butterflies to your garden, including common checkered skippers, painted ladies, buckeyes, sulphurs, gray hairstreaks, sleepy orange, eastern tailed-blue, silver-spotted skipper, and variegated fritillary.
Verbena
Sulphurs and zebra longwings will be drawn to the nectar of most species of verbena.
Queen Anne’s Lace
Another beautiful and easy-to-grow flowering herb, Queen Anne’s lace is a host food for the anise swallowtail.
Daisy
Most varieties of daisy are favorite nectaring flowers for mourning cloak and queen butterflies. Daisies are also a host food for painted lady caterpillars.
Hollyhock
Alcea, commonly known as hollyhock, is a host food for painted lady, checkered skipper, and gray hairstreak larva.
Goldenrod
Flowers in the genus Solidago, known collectively as goldenrods, are a favorite nectar source for a variety of butterflies, including sulphurs, American snouts, red admirals, gorgone checkerspots, and viceroys.
Dogwood
Flowers of the dogwood tree attract spring azure and American snout butterflies. The leaves are also a host food for spring azure larva.
Poplar
Most often planted as a fast-growing shade tree, poplars are also a host food for white admiral, tiger swallowtail, mourning cloak, viceroy, and red-spotted purple butterfly larva.
Snapdragon
Plants of the genus Antirrhinum, collectively known as snapdragons, are host food for the larva of the common buckeye.
Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea, the purple coneflower, is well-known for its immune-boosting and anti-depressant properties. It is also an attractant for the common wood-nymph butterfly.
Mustard
Not only great for harvesting its seeds and greens for culinary use, the mustard plant is also a favorite nectaring and host food for falcate orangetip butterflies and larva.
Passion Vine
Passiflora, also known as the passion vine, sports large, exotic purple flowers that will spice up any garden. The foliage is also a host food for gulf fritillary and zebra longwing caterpillars.
Sunflower
In addition to providing sunflower seeds for human consumption, these summertime favorites provide nectar and host food for most species of checkerspot butterflies and larva.
Viburnum
A popular landscaping shrub due to its pleasant fragrance, viburnum will also attract Baltimore checkerspots and spring azure butterflies to your garden.
Burdock
Traditionally cultivated for the medicinal properties of its root, burdock is a favorite host food for painted lady caterpillars.
Vetch
A flowering plant of the legume family, any of the over a hundred species of vetch will attract American painted ladies, sulphurs, and zabulon skippers, as both a nectaring and larva host food source.
Blueberry
These popular fruit-bearing bushes will bring both swallowtails and spring azure butterflies to your garden.
Black Walnut
Juglans nigera, the black walnut tree, is host food for over two hundred species of butterfly and moth larvae, including swallowtails, red-spotted purples, royal walnut moths, and the elusive and exotic luna moth!
Stonecrop
The name given to a variety of low-growing succulents, stonecrop is a favorite nectaring plant for СКАЧАТЬ