A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs Butterfly and Bird Gardens flowers in December

look at my butterfly bush. still in bloom in December. Where are the butterflies?
GONE! http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n269/psychobubba_2006/IMG_0232-1.jpg

I love your butterfly bush too! Every one I've planted down here has died fairly fast. I still have butterflies though; just a few days ago I walked out in the morning and saw a newly emerged Zebra Heliconian male hanging about two feet away from two female chrysalides, both covered in male butterflies waiting for the girls to emerge. It was absolutely stunning. I think you need to move way south for December butterflies, but I do envy your butterfly bush.

Dhuber,, I love the color of your Butterfly bush It's the first one of THAT color I have seen,, Lovely!!!!!

Dhuber--very pretty butterfly bush--the color is unsual for sure.

Thanks all. It's January now and it looks like it should. I have 2 bushes. A white one and this yellow. The flutterbys like the white one best. I can sit on the deck and watch them all day and get nothing else done. BEST on Saturdays. lol