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LIcenter
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The butterfly, bee, hummer bed is waking up.

Three types of milkweed reside in this bed. Tuberosa,Incarnata and common milkweed, along with monarda ,and various other plants that I would have to look up due to CRS. The bed is now three years old, and will need splitting of many plants come next spring.

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HoneyBerry
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Very nice!
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Lovely! What are the bright pink ones in the second picture?
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Thank you, the third pic with pink flowers are Dianthus, Sweet William I believe. I also have a white variety that I got off the dollar rack, and has not come into it's own just yet. Another type I have grows in a grassy looking mound called firewitch.
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Looking great! What butterflies have come to visit so far this year?

I saw a Red Admiral today. :D
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applestar wrote:Looking great! What butterflies have come to visit so far this year?

I saw a Red Admiral today. :D
Honestly? White Sulphurs are the only ones here now. Another week or two, and the big boys should start showing up. (Hopefully!)


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