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Old 30-07-2009, 01:04 AM
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Re: Flowers for butterflies

I now have a mass of marjoram with knautia macedona, small scabious and pioneering ox eye daisies growing in between along 1 border and yesterday, nice hot day it was I had speckled wood, gatekeepers, meadow browns, comma, whites & red admiral, that was just for starters, a mass of honey bees, bumble bees, red tails and quite a few different types of hover fly all scrambling around getting a good fill. The buddleia too was visited by whites and red admirals also. But certainly the marjoram was getting the most attention! Garlic mustard and honesty in Spring are visited by orange tips. Though to be honest I'm not too happy with my garden atm and wish to cut back a lot of lychnis firecracker and yellow loosestrife which has gone rampant and add dames violet, soapwort and add more thyme only I can get the time to do so!
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