Butterfly and Bird Plants for Puttenahalli Lake

Suggestions from Chinmayi SK, 3-Mar-2013

Shrubs

Shrubs for the hedge

• Ixora

• Clerodendrum spp - Clerodendrum serratum , Clerodendrum paniculatum (pagoda flower)

• Marigold

• Oleander spp

• Hibiscus

• Asclepias curassavica

• Lantana - lantana camara

• Rattle Pod - Crotalaria spp

• Yellow hedge Barleria – barleria priontis

• Pentas lanceolata

• Plumbago auriculata

Smaller Plants for the slope

• Abutilon indicum

• Bryophyllum

• Passion flower

• common sorel

• common small justicia

• Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Trees

Dont Plant Neem

• False Ashoka - polyalthia longifolia

• indian laburnum

• Acacia Spp (not near water only if there is space at the outer edge)

• butea monosperma (for both butterflies and birds , plant in the island)

• Palm spp

• Singapore cherry

• Citrus spp

Miscellaneous

• Milk weed (calotropis spp)

• Castor

• Cassia spp ( shrub )

• Aristolochia (climber)

Patch

• lillies

• Clerodendrum chinense

• Zinnia Hybrid

We can add more plants seasonally

Fence

• Orange Trumpet Flower

• Bouganvilla