Native plant:insect relationships Archives - Delightful Gardens Landscape Consulting and Design

Only Violets Will Keep This Butterfly Around—But Pick the Right Ones

February 15, 2020

Violets are the only food of the fritillary butterfly caterpillar The fritillary butterfly lives its larval stage dining only on violets. The best food for the fritillary in our neck of the woods is the violets that evolved in our …

Incense Cedar—native, common, and a great landscape tree

February 17, 2020January 19, 2020

I first learned about incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) long ago while working with Tree People, a tree planting environmental organization in southern California. One of our missions was to plant smog tolerant trees in the surrounding mountains. Among the list …