My butterfly bush was as busy as an airport yesterday.
This is a Black Knight Buddleia with deep purple blooms.
It was covered by dozens of butterflies yesterday evening.
Along with the various types of butterflies were several Hummingbird Clearwing moths.
and a lone MONARCH!
I was so glad to have my camera. This is the first Monarch butterfly I have seen this year.
I love watching all the fliers sharing the flowers.
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Absolutely Beautiful.
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Wait ’til you see what I found this morning. It made my heart sing!
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Can’t wait to see what you found.
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A clever muted background to the first Monarch photo
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It’s a great pollinator plant. Obviously.
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You so have a nice variety of butterflies.
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We had/have an elderly tall white buddleia which this spring I cut back very hard indeed. A couple of harsh late frosts in May and it seemed that the buddleia had died. I was frustrated with myself: who knew it was possible to kill a buddleia? But we left it in situ and slowly, slowly is is hauling itself back into life. It is even going to produce a few small flower bracts. It’s still very puny but hopefully in another summer or two it will be hosting hoards of butterflies again just as yours is, Flower 🙂
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I need to deadhead the blooms, but do not want to disturb the butterflies.
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