Any help for identificaion? Thanks
ID Please?
Looks like an Asclepias, Butterflyweed.
Maybe Asclepias tuberosa.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ASTU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_tuberosa
It looks to me more like the yellow/gold version of Asclepias curassavica.
Looks like Asclepias to me
Hello tropical gardeners! Toward the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, i had a terrible time with leaf cutter ants. They have been around since i began this garden 8 years ago, but not in great numbers until recently. My garden is at the back of the house and walled in the spanish tradition. They come in the night and can strip a large tree completely bare by dawn. I cut back a lot of vegetation (luckily things grow fast here) and attacked them with a soap, water, cinnamon and clove oil mixture. No toxic chemicals are used in my garden to prevent harming the caterpillars,butterflies and other nectar lovers. Does anyone have problems with the leaf cutter ants? How do you deal with them?
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Try straight cinnamon?
Thanks for the idea adenium. I wonder why i posted my question on someone else's thread re a plant id?...maybe temporary insanity or a mistake :-). I have used powdered cinnamon in the past and what i discovered is that the larger ants like the leaf cutters will have a group of ants that sacrifice themselves by laying down in the cinnamon powder to create bridges so the rest of the ants can pass over safely. I have also placed a water filled moat around a bush, and the larger ants just swam to the other side with few casualties. I wonder if putting garlic water and cinnamon oil in the moat water would stop them?
You should post a new thread about the leaf cutter ants on the Tropical Gardening forum. I would like to see what others are doing.
I have the same problem with them. Nothing works.
I have finally used a nicotine product drizzled on the base of the plant where it comes out of the ground, only after it is defoliated completely and no flowers. That seems to stop them from coming back.
Problem plants - roses, gardenias, fuschia.