Anna put together recently all the pictures of the butterflies we spotted during this season in our garden!
We visited a butterfly garden a year back and observed that they need host plants to breed.
So we planted them around the patches of lawns we have in the garden. Some plants are bare because the pupa feeds on the leaves. We have refrained from using pesticides on these plants to allow the breeding of butterflies. We are witnessing the benefit of it now!
One big challenge in gardening is to cultivate an attitude of allowing squirrels, birds, rodents, frogs etc. to survive! It is not always an easy process. We often gather fruits like papaya, half eaten by squirrels. A delay of few hours to puck them when they are ripe would be enough for the squirrels to feed on them!
A garden ought to have all these guests for it to be most natural!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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