Thanks to Justin Durango, designer of the rain garden and water feature, for insisting that I plant White-Veined Dutchman’s Pipe (Aristolochia fimbriata) despite it not being native. The native Pipevines (A. macrophylla and A. tomentosa) grow to thirty and forty feet long and almost as wide, far too large for this small garden. Evidently the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies we’d hoped to attract are happy with this import. The NCSU Gardeners’ Toolbox assures me that our Swallowtail Caterpillars can eat the leaves without harm.
