Almost
Should be done by Sunday. All told I will have 6 or 7 areas in total with 84 plants of 13 species or varieties. I grew almost all of it from seed.
Area 1 - The Smorgasbord
12 types of 1 each (Common has 2 and Swamp has 3)
Common
Swamp
Tropical
Purple
Balloon Plant
Butterflyweed
Green
Hello Yellow
Spider
Poke
Sullivants (Prairie)
Showy
Hope to add Redring soon. Last year this area was only Common, Purple and Swamp and I had cats most of the time for 2 months.
Area 2 - Front Football bed
Will plant all whites and pinks of 7 varieties including:
White Swamp
White Whorled
Swamp
Pink Cinderella
Woodson's Swamp
Soulmate
Showy
This is the most formal bed and is bounded on one end with a Contorted Filbert and a Franklin tree (extinct in the wild) on the other and a pink Rugosa rose in the middle.
Area 3 - The New Tropical Bed
I planted 18 plants comprised of
Silky Gold
Butterfly Balls
Silky Yellow
Tropical
Many of these have already started blooming. This area is about 150 square feet and has all manner of tropicals. See:
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
Area 4 - Half moon
6 Swamp
Bed also has slender mountain mint and Ozark Bluestar.
Area 5
Tweedia going on deck post (with Vigna Caralla - snail vine). Have 6 more Tweedia plants started in the basement which I will add in thext few weeks.
Area 6 & 7
All other remaining plants will be added to the banks that surround 2 sides of my house. Guessing ~ 50 plants in the two areas.
In addition to the mentioned 84 plants, I have 13 under TLC in my "pretend" Greenhouse. I also have ~ 40 + seedlings of 6 species in my basement. I also have more Redring and Purple stratifying in the frig. Hopefully, by summer's end, I should have well over 100 plants.
Have not seen a Monarch yet.,
C'mon guys - Have I got a meal for you.
