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Rhododendron Attracting Beneficial Insects

17 years ago

I saw something very interesting, and wonderful, yesterday while working in my garden. One of my rhododendrons (not sure the name since I rescued it from the side of the road (it was laying there waiting for garbage pickup) a few years ago) had a monarch butterfly on its flowers for a couple of hours!

Oh, and my yaku 'Mist Maiden' and Ingrid Melqhuist (sp?) rhodos were both literally covered with huge bumblebees when they bloomed in May. I've yet to see any hummingbirds at the flowers. Anyone else notice that their rhodos are beneficial insect attractors?

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dee_can1
Original Author
17 years ago
Ladybugs, too... lol.
bob64
17 years ago
I've seen bumblebees buzzing around our rhodos and azaleas.
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NHBabs z4b-5a NH
17 years ago
I've got what is probably a Roseum elegans, and during late May the entire plant buzzes during daylight hours with the bumblebees - you can hear it from several feet away. We have humming birds also, but I've never seen them at the rhodie, just at the Heuchera (coralbells) that grows at its feet.

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