my seed list was last updated 12/7/14. some seeds have been traded/used since then. but I have not found the magic link to update my list. can email current list to anyone interested.

Really like the ligularia with the dark stems. Midnight Aura is a pleasing color. In the first photo, it seems not to be fully open. Is it not an EMO?

Wow, thank you all sooooo much! What a welcome! Love it! I know Mara (Wantonomara) - met you on the Salvia Forum; and Rosalee, of course I know you from the Butterfly Gardening forum. I am thrilled to be among so many great gardeners. I started BF gardening several years ago, long before I found the BF forum at GW. I grow the following host plants: Aristolochia tomentosa and Aristolochia macrophylla and Aristolochia serpentaria and Aristolochia clematitis These all for the Pipevine Swallowtails. Asclepias incarnata and Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella' Asclepias curassavica annual Cynanchum laeve (milkweed vine) I am wintersowing A. purpurescens, A. speciosa, A. hirtella, A. viridis, Gomphocarpus (Family Jewels), and Calatropia gigantea (Giant Milkweed). The last two are annuals in my zone. These are for the Monarch and Queens. Boehmeria cylindrica for the Red Admirals, Question Marks Hops vine for the Red Admirals, Question Marks Passiflora 'Lavendar Lady' Passiflora lutea, both for the Gulf Fritillarys Senna hebecarpa (Wild Senna) Senna chamaecrista (Partridge Pea) Senna bicapsularis (reseeding annual) The above are for the Sleepy Oranges and Cloudless Sulphurs. Fennel (bulb) Fennel, Bronze Rue These are for the Black Swallowtails and the Rue is also host to the Giant Swallowtails Ruellia brittonia Diascia Plantago major Plantago lanceolata These plants host the Buckeye butterfly. Gnaphalium obtusifolium Artemisia stelleriana 'Silver Brocade' For the American Lady butterflies. Am wintersowing some pussytoes (Antennaria plataginifolia) for them as well. Baptisia australia 'minor' for the Wild Indigo Duskywings which are overwintering on the plant right now. I have Hackberry and Elm trees which are host for the Hackberry and Tawny Emperors. Raise a bunch of them last year. Question Marks love the Elm and Hackberry, too. I also raise sphinx moths: Elm (Four-Horned Sphinx) Trumpet Vine (Trumpet Vine sphinx) Tomatoes and Datura (Manduca sexta and Manduca quinquemaculata) Virginia Creeper (Virginia Creeper sphinx, Eumorpha achemon, Eumorpha pandorus, Nessus Sphinx) Lonicera flava (Snowberry Clearwing sphinx) Pentas, red (Tersa sphinx) I get lots of little Eight-spotted forester caterpillars on the Virginia Creeper as well, but I don't raise them because of their pupating habit of using wood to burrow in. They are gorgeous little day flying moths that are black with white spots, and fuzzy red front legs. I do not use any chemicals on my plants at all so I won't harm the butterflies. I let nature do its thing so that lots of beneficials come to the garden to handle aphids, spider mites, etc. For nectar, I have: Verbena bonariensis Cosmos sulphureous 'Cosmic Orange' Tropical milkweed Mexican Sunflower Zinnias (I like the single flowering) Pentas Lantana 'Miss Huff' Liatris spicata Echinacea purpureum Echinacea pallida Cleome (which also attracts the Cabbage Whites) Four o'clocks (moths) Datura (moths) Morning Glories Salvia pink/white Asters Blue Mistflower Butterfly bushes (Peacock, bicolor, White Profusion) Joe Pye Weed Dandelions (yes, the early migrating Monarchs love them) Spigelia marilandica (Indian Pink for the hummers) Lobelia cardinalis (for the hummers) I usually pot up some annuals for the summer that the butterflies, moths and hummers really like. One plant I really, really want is Flame Acanthus and I hope to find it this year. It is a host for the Texas Crescent butterfly which I see a lot here. I also have clovers for the Clouded Sulphurs - no, my yard is not weed free cuz I get lots of little tiny wildflowers that the Dainty Sulphurs and Checkerspots love to nectar on. I am also growing a hardy Ichang Lemon - hope it made it thru our winter. Last I checked the leaves were still pretty much green. I am hoping to get fruit some day, but also Giant Swallowtails like things in the citrus family. I also have Hibiscus coccinus 'Texas Star', and the Gray Hairstreaks lay eggs on the flowers - too cute. Their chrysalis is about 1/4" long. The caterpillars look like tiny green slugs. Most of the butterfly plants attract the hummingbirds as well, but I am adding several Salvia to the garden this year just for them. That's about it. Look forward to being on the forum! Susan

Ginger - Thanks for starting this thread. I've been reading it with interest on both the LD and this forum. I'm probably not too far from you, a bit north of Concord, NH. I live on an old farm, which currently has about 35 acres in corn and the rest overgrown pasture, much of which is good sized trees. I've got variation to my soil type and water, so that I've got hemlock, white oak and balsam fir in some areas and beech, red maple, and red oak in others, along with yellow, gray and white birch, striped maple, red and white pine. I've got 3 kinds of native viburnum, rhodora, sheep laurel, and lots of native wildflowers. At the same time, I've got bittersweet, buckthorn, and wild grape that need controlling to a degree that sometimes gets depressing (I'll probably be fighting it the rest of my days . . .) I've been concentrating on the poison ivy in areas I walk or garden first, since I'm highly sensitive to it, and then the buckthorn. I use Roundup on the PI, and a combo of pulling, brush cutting and Roundup on the buckthorn. The bear in the woods keeps me out of them during much of the warm weather, however. To the amusement of my husband and various subcontractors, I've flagged plants that I don't want mowed, run over, or otherwise abused, like the viburnum, pagoda dogwoods and a moose maple with glowing apricot winter branches. I've done some seed starting, and I bought liner trays of native shrubs to plant along the 1/4 mile of driveway into my DH's shop, including mountain laurel, swamp rhododendron, and fothergilla(sp?). That's as far as I've gotten in the 6 seasons we've been there, but I'm still plugging away. With a large area like I have, I'm trying to take it a little bit at a time, and leave much of the woods as they are for the various critters with which we share them.