Good point about host plants being eaten, Elaine! If one doesn't like the "chewed" look, doing nectar plants that aren't also hosts is a good idea (though something else like slugs or armyworms are always a possibility for those too.)
Aww, what a sweet offer, Gin, TYVM! After moving last year, I've done little in the way of perennials here yet, having had to dig & smother grass to get started at all. Then I promptly filled those areas with tropicals that I'm soon going to be trying to squeeze inside for winter. Between my Mom's yard (where I stuck most of the plants I'd dug up to keep from the other yard before we moved,) and potted tropicals, I might have enough stuff that other people would want, and possibly don't already have, by spring. Without me on-scene to water stuff when it didn't rain the past couple summers, it's taken the stuff I moved to Mom's a LONG time to recover.
You've been on my mind lately. Remember giving me a Plumeria cutting? It didn't seem happy in its' pot last summer so I put it in the ground this spring too. Now it's a small tree, almost 5 ft. tall with several big branches and buds on it! DH is going to build me a little shelter for it for cold nights, it's too big to come inside! So excited!
I've also continued its' "was-gifted" tradition and sent a cutting to someone else in FL where it can live in the ground fulltime without worry. That's a piece of plant with a story to tell!
