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On Gardening: Let the tiger days of summer celebration commence
The Truffula Pink Gomphrena has only been out for three years and has proven to be a real champion for Eastern Tiger Swallowtails and will bloom until frost. Photos courtesy Norman Winter/TNS
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By Norman Winter
Today I am here to say, let’s give up the dog days and create a celebration of the tiger days of summer. I am not talking LSU, Auburn or Clemson starting football workouts. I am, however, touting states like Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia coming together for the one thing they have in common: They have all chosen the eastern tiger swallowtail as their state butterfly.
TIGER DAYS
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The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is one of our largest butterflies and is the State Butterfly of Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Miss Molly butterfly bush is not only certified non-invasive but has beautiful orchid-colored blossoms and a perfect 6-foot habit. It is magical when it comes to attracting butterflies.
a little like vagabonds, here today and gone tomorrow with their migratory habit. If the eastern tiger swallowtails fail to show, on the other hand, the heart starts to palpitate, and the summer landscape seems as though it has had a pall cast over it.
Now get out a pencil and paper for your test. Monarchs must have milkweed; what is the larval food for eastern tiger swallowtails? Lucky for us, we have several options, all trees: wild cherry (Prunus), tulip poplar (Liriodendron), sweetbay (Magnolia), birch (Betula), ash (Fraxinus), cottonwood (Populus), willow (Salix), mountain ash (Sorbus) and basswood (Tilia). The forest is extremely important. The chrysalids even over winter in the forest.
So, the forest is doing its part; what can we do to provide nectar with the hopes of keeping eastern tiger swallowtails around during the torrid days of summer? Their average lifespan is about two weeks, and the swallowtail appreciates your efforts to grow flowers.
At The Garden Guy’s house we have had some clear eastern tiger swallowtail champion flowers that have come to the front the past few years. These flowers
A wingspan that can exceed 5 inches makes the eastern tiger swallowtail one of the most loved butterflies in the United States. It has a huge range, from Texas north to Canada and all states eastward. When the eastern tigers show up in the landscape, the cameras start clicking. It is indeed a cause for celebration.
They have two broods in the North and three in the South, with some of the heaviest populations occurring simultaneously with the hottest days of the summer, yes, the dog days, which officially this year were July 3 through Aug. 11. You see, the real dog days are tied to an astrological event.
The monarch butterfly gets the lion’s share of the press these days, and rightfully so. I love monarchs, and we all need to grow milkweed and be activists for the preservation of their habitat. You have to admit, though, they are
