Florida Native Gardening with Tibby

 Wild Lime bushes - I didn't realize how pretty their small flowers are.  And they smell a little like lime.  But these flowers were mostly gone in two days.   (These photos were taken on June 1, 2022)  Zanthoxylum fagara This bush/small tree is a host plant for the giant swallowtail butterfly. (Mine is still just a bush.) I had never seen one of these butterflies until about three weeks after I planted these bushes last year.   Figure 1.  Adult giant swallowtail,  Papilio cresphontes  Cramer, dorsal view. Photograph by  Donald Hall , Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida This photo is an image of the giant swallowtail butterfly copied from this website: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/citrus/giantswallowtail.htm  

Rouge Plant   (Rivina humilis)  This one is a volunteer that came up next to the front porch.  The plants that come up as volunteers seem to thrive better than the ones that I planted in the first place!                  Lantana  Involucrata  These lantana are native to Florida  - and both of these are volunteers as well.  I didn't realize that the white flowers fall away and become purple berries - I hadn't really noticed that before.  the small plant shown on the right has small purple berries, that I didn't recognize.  I had to use the google lens app to tell me it was a Lantana Involucrata. Bush Allamanda - very pretty yellow flowers;  non-native;   although currently "not a problem species", it is considered a "high invasive risk".  I transplanted this from a previous house  because I loved the beautiful flowers.  I may decide to take it out, given the focus ...