Subject: Fw: Plants to attract Hummingbirds
Date: May 20 20:53:50 1999
From: Marguerite Bevis - mfly.bevis at worldnet.att.net


Wow, Christy, sure glad you let me know about buddleia! I had certainly
been considering it since it grows quickly and has lots of blooms for a long
time.
I do appreciate your comment... thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Christy Anderson <christya at gte.net>
To: seaotter at eskimo.com <seaotter at eskimo.com>; pkchambr at gte.net
<pkchambr at gte.net>; 'tweeters' <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Plants to attract Hummingbirds


>When you see these lists of plants from nurseries to attract especially
>butterflies, please be sure you check them out in other sources. Most of
>these lists contain buddleia davidii, known as butterfly bush, which is a
>big, beautiful shrub on
>almost every nursery's butterfly plant list. It is also being considered
for
>addition to the noxious weed list of Washington. It is an extremely
invasive
>plant of moist areas, like riparian habitats, and is becoming a real
problem
>along the Cedar River and in many other areas. It even appeared in the
>latest issue of Audubon magazine as a recommended butterfly plant!
>
>Gorgeous as it is, it appears to be possibly the next purple loosestrife,
>and I would hate to see more people plant it.
>