I think there should be a book in your future! You write so beautifully.
I have grown what I thought were "moonflowers" for a couple of years and just learned that they are highly toxic datura plants. They are gorgeous, do bloom at night, and are very fragrant then and a little bit in the AM when they are beginning to fade. I noticed a hornworm on a stem and learned when I posted a picture on the Asheville Plant People Facebook group that it would develop into a sphinx moth that pollinates the datura. It stayed on the same stem and the next day I saw two small cocoons on it indicating that it had been attacked by a braconid wasp, which is a friend tomato wasps, since those hornworms will die from the invasion. Nature's battles are fascinating to learn about.
I think there should be a book in your future! You write so beautifully.
I have grown what I thought were "moonflowers" for a couple of years and just learned that they are highly toxic datura plants. They are gorgeous, do bloom at night, and are very fragrant then and a little bit in the AM when they are beginning to fade. I noticed a hornworm on a stem and learned when I posted a picture on the Asheville Plant People Facebook group that it would develop into a sphinx moth that pollinates the datura. It stayed on the same stem and the next day I saw two small cocoons on it indicating that it had been attacked by a braconid wasp, which is a friend tomato wasps, since those hornworms will die from the invasion. Nature's battles are fascinating to learn about.