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If
you wish to have Pipe Vine Swallowtail butterflies in your landscape, you
have to grow Pipe Vines or, as some call them, Dutchman's Pipe. Botanically,
they are members of the genus Aristolochia. This species is
the most diminutive one hardy in our climate. While it can climb
to over 12' in the tropics, here it behaves more as a perennial groundcover
in shady spots. It is native to southern Brazil and adjacent areas
of Argentina and Paraguay and disappears after a freeze, returning from
the underground parts in early spring. One more thing, if you truly
want the butterflies, you must share the variegated foliage with their
distinctive caterpillars!
(Feed with 3 Agriform
21-gram,
2-year fertilizer tablets at the bottom of the hole at planting time.) |