The activity in my own backyard continues! It’s been great fun to have such great photographic opportunities right outside my back door. The nice weather is helping too, as I wouldn’t be sitting outside reading if it were still so hot and humid. This time, it was the male eastern black swallowtail butterfly visiting the…
I don’t have to worry about having excess parsley in my garden. I’m fortunate if the caterpillars leave me any once they get going! The first batch of caterpillars earlier this summer died. I try to not fertilize the parsley because I know how sensitive the caterpilllars are, but I must have done so unintentionally.…
© 2011 dogear6 llc Whenever the question is asked what I do with the parsley that I grow, my answer is that I grow butterflies! Every year since I’ve had my herb garden containers on the deck, I’ve had butterfly eggs grow into caterpillars which then went into the chrysalis. Eventually it splits and a black swallowtail…
