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Toadflax brocade moth caterpillars

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Just thought I’d show this one,  I really love these plants. 


    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's a beauty. They really respond to bring looked after and treated as short -lived perennials.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I love it too. Has anyone tried Spanish Dancer or Fairy Bouquet? I've tried direct sowing it rarely works for me. Canon Went and Peachy are such lovely colours. I'd like more of those. Their seeds can revert.




  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have pink ones turn up,  never sowed them. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    I grew canon went from seed as all my volunteer plants were purple. It looked lovely for the first flowering year but gradually the pink went and im back to all purple. I dont mind as its still one of the nicest weeds you can grow and i dont mind the catepillars munching on it.
    I also grow linaria vulgaris as it's one of the best bee plants for late summer. It runs at the root, so needs some control but fine if you don't mind things a little wild. 
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