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Plant some parsley for the butterflies |
If you love swallowtail butterflies, and who doesn’t, then plant some parsley in your garden.
The butterfly lays her eggs on parsley, which plays host to a lovely caterpillar of green and black, with yellow and blue features. As an infant, it will look like a spot of bird poop. But as it matures, it changes to a black and white worm, then to the lovely caterpillar, which will gorge for a couple of weeks, then pupate.
For feeding (if you want them to hang around), the butterflies are attracted to trumpet-shaped flowers. They also love heart-leaved and golden Alexander (a member of the parsley family), wild carrot and Queen Anne’s lace, angelica. The dreaded goutweed is also a member of this family.
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Keeping pets safe in the garden
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Nobody loves the garden more than our pets. Small dogs come in from their forays adorned with petunia blossoms caught in their long fur and cats are euphoric upon meeting up with certain members of the mint family.
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The secrets of NPK
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The three nutritional bigwigs of the plant kingdom are nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. These nutrients are essential for plant growth and deficiencies can play havoc in your garden.
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Swell
bells
Bell-shaped flowers enchant us. Blooming seemingly upside down, they look like fairy stocking caps or...
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Late frost protection tips
After a long, dreary winter, no matter how warm and apparently benign, we can't wait to see...
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Dwarf
shrubs
Every alpine garden needs some anchoring features to provide scale and structure to...
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Alpines, miniature miraclesThey hug the ground, many of them, as if to embrace Mother Earth and thank her for their...
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