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Butterfly

23 Tuesday Sep 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Colours, ecology, Flowers, Quotes

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Butterflies are self propelled flowers!

Butterflies are self-propelled flowers!

Black Eyed Susan

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Colours, Flowers, gardening tips, Gardens, Growing, Honey Bee, insects, Perennials, South African Endemic

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Thunbergia alata or “Black Eyed Susan”  is a happy fast growing and long flowering vine. It is a favourite here in South Africa, as it is not fussy about the soil and needs only moderate water. It is mostly evergreen and covers ugly places fast.

Ecology
Black-eyed susan is probably pollinated by bees. An insect visiting the flower will touch the stigma first, with its back, and then the anthers, getting a load of pollen that is then carried to another stigma. The flowers reflect ultra violet light in a pattern that is visible to insects but not to humans. This helps insects find the centre of the flower. Seeds are perhaps ejected mechanically when the fruit splits open. A butterfly, Junonia ovithya, or the eyed pansy, and moths also visit these plants to lay eggs, for the larvae eat the leaves. Hence this creeper, being attractive to insects, helps bring birds into a garden. Birds also often nest in the thickly tangled stems.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

Caterpillars ?

03 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in ecology, Garden Creatures, gardening tips

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butterfly, caterpillar, clivia, crinum, environment, green tip, home grown, jeremy taylor, nature, netting, organic, Pest control


crinum netting

Do you have a problem with caterpillars on your Crinum and Clivias?

This innovative method was sent to me via Jeremy Taylor from Sydney.

Simply drape netting over your plants, this stops the butterfly from laying her eggs on your plants.

butterfly netting 2

Photo credits Jeremy Taylor

Caterpillar

26 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Art Gift, Garden Creatures, Organic, Photography, Quotes

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art gift, Butterflies, butterfly, caterpillar, deviantart, garden, garden creature, nature, organic, outdoors, photography, quote, Recreation, richard bach, Wildlife


caterpillar

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls a Butterfly
Richard Bach

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Red Admiral

02 Wednesday Oct 2013

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art gift, butterfly, deviantart, Flowers, Helichrysum, nature, Photo, photography, plants, pollinators, Red Admiral, The Lost gardens of Heligan


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This Red Admiral was found at the Lost Gardens of Heligan sipping from the Everlastings.

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Posted by Brigid Jackson | Filed under Art Gift, Colours, Flowers, Garden Creatures, Gardens, Photography

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Sweet Scenter – Cape May

02 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Aromatherapy, Flowers, gardening tips, Perennials, South African Endemic

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Afrikaans, Agathosma, Aromatherapy, Bee, Buchu, butterfly, Cape May, Cape Town, coastal winds, coleonema, Essential oil, floral arrangements, Flowers, garden, Insect repellent, nature, odour, plants, South African endemic plant, white flowers


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The Cape May, (Klipboegoe – Afrikaans), or Confetti Bush (Coleonema Album) is one of my all time favourite plants in the Spring. It has dainty white flowers which smells of a mixture of Honey and Buchu.  It is wonderful in floral arrangements.

It is an easy grower and withstands dry conditions and harsh coastal winds. The flowers are carried in such profusion that the bush is a cloud of white when in flower and attracts bees and butterflies. It flowers from May to November.

The aromatic leaves containing essential oils are used by fishermen to remove the odour of red-bait (aas) from their hands, hence the common name.
Campers rub the leaves on their bedding to keep ants and mosquitoes away. The leaves are used in potpourri and act as an insect repellent.

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Caterpillar’s Metamorphosis

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Art Gift, Garden Creatures, Organic, Photography, Quotes

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caterpillar

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls a Butterfly
Richard Bach

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Swallowtail

29 Wednesday May 2013

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butterfly, Citrus swallowtail butterfly, deviantart, environment, garden, love, nature, photography, quotes, saint augustine, swallowtail butterfly


Citrus Swallowtail

Love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine

Citrus Swallowtail butterfly

 

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Posted by Brigid Jackson | Filed under ecology, Garden Creatures, Photography, Quotes

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james russell RESONANCE – BEINGS OF FREQUENCY

18 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Birds, ecology, Garden Creatures, Health, Honey Bee

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Caterpillars ?

14 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in ecology, Garden Creatures, gardening tips

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butterfly, caterpillar, clivia, crinum, environment, green tip, home grown, jeremy taylor, nature, netting, organic, Pest control


crinum netting

Do you have a problem with caterpillars on your Crinum and Clivias?

This innovative method was sent to me via Jeremy Taylor from Sydney.

 

Simply drape netting over your plants, this stops the butterfly from laying her eggs on your plants.

butterfly netting 2

Photo credits Jeremy Taylor

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