The garden is aflutter with butterflies. The Monarchs…the White Cabbage…and Fiery Skipper… and the Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly. Usually these Gulf Frits can be found gorging on the Lantana and verbena… but this weekend, it’s all about the passion-flower. This is where they will lay their eggs – because their larva feeds exclusively on the passion-flower vine that covers our arbor. Before long, there will be spiny caterpillars covering the arbor…the beginning of the transformation from larva to winged […]

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