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Luring butterflies to your garden
What is a garden without colourful butterflies hovering around? The trouble with most of our urban gardens is that they include a good many plants, but do not offer much by way of subsistence for creatures like birds and butterflies.
Happiness, it is said, is like a butterfly – you would never catch it if you run after it, but if you let go reaching for it and live your life industriously, it would come hovering around you.
It might be difficult to attract happiness to us, but we can easily attract butterflies and bees into our gardens through this simple lure: plant a hibiscus plant. The plant may be grown in pots initially, but ideally, it is grown on ground. This yellow variety of hibiscus is capable of reaching heights beyond eight feet.
The plant requires good sunlight and adequate watering of about a litre everyday.
Propagation is through saplings and the plant survives for many years – some of them have been known to live for over 20 years.
As the plant attracts insects, it is crucial to spray insecticides on it once in six months to ensure that the plant does not fall victim to fungal and other infections spread by insects.
Benefits
As it flowers throughout the year, the plant makes for a steady pooja flower option. The flower and its leaves’ are used in cosmetic preparations. But even more importantly, the nectar laden hibiscus flowers attract insects like butterflies.
Bees and butterflies are crucial for cross pollination between plants, and cross pollination is crucial for enhancing plant vigour. Besides this, these insect varieties attract birds and other friendly creatures into your garden.
HEMA VIJAY
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