Insect attractor +

[nightshade]

It always surprises me, I have a Fatsia Japonica in my front (north facing) garden. It is heaving with Wasps, Bumblebees, Honeybees, Hoverflies, Beetles
and a posse of half a dozen Butterflies, at night it's moths.

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by nightshade

It always surprises me, I have a Fatsia Japonica in my front (north facing) garden. It is heaving with Wasps, Bumblebees, Honeybees, Hoverflies, Beetles
and a posse of half a dozen Butterflies, at night it's moths.

It's closely related to Ivy, so the flowers have the same strong attractant power of our native species. In fact there are intergeneric hybrids between the two: x Fatshedera readily available for gardens; I have a variegated one in a pot.

[nightshade]

Now that does sound interesting, I have ivys in the back garden that simply
do not have the same prolific flower power. Fatshedera hmm

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Now that does sound interesting, I have ivys in the back garden that simply
do not have the same prolific flower power. Fatshedera hmm

Strangely for me it's the other way round. Admittingly my Fatsia is a small plant in a pot with 1 flower + I have a huge amount of flowering Ivy along a fence which is covered in flies, wasps, bees + the occasional butterfly (probably a few moths at night).