For our mystery seed post last week we had 5 seeds from flowers that are great nectar plants for butterfly gardens. And the mystery seeds were (drum roll)…. 1. Echinacea – coneflowers (perennial) (Public domain photograph by Bobbi Jones at PublicDomainPictures.net) Butterflies love aster relatives with flat flower heads to stand on. These large, robust, […]
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Bees get all the buzz whenever someone brings up pollination, but butterflies deserve some credit, too. In fact, there are some flowers that are pollinated specifically by butterflies. Background: What is pollination? Remember visiting flower parts a few weeks ago? Let’s look at the generalized diagram again: (“Mature flower diagram†by Mariana Ruiz LadyofHats. Public […]
If you have been following Growing With Science, you know that we have been closely observing the insects on a small planting of zinnias for the last few weeks (posts about zinnia insects 1, 2, and 3). The variety of zinnias we have been observing are Profusion® Fire, which are hybrids between regular zinnias (Zinnia […]
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