Butterflies Love the Asters (and other lovely things..)!!

4 Oct '06 2:31 am

Because I caused you the attitude to be...."excused", dear young friend!!

Look. It is true, that I childishly long, that my...heart beating on everything I post and touches my very being, to be in the same length with all my friends' heart beating... That is impossible rationally...Cause each and everyone of us is a different human being, regardless of our common Love for Nature and all its beings! So , it is impossible that we all respond in the same way on different subjects, no?

But , IF some of you have exactly the same heart beating like me about Nature and its Miracles, then I feel...flying to the 7th sky! That's very true!

So, please, my love : FEEL, just feel, the Joy of things!! The Beauty of things!! The Essense of things!! Don't allow to sweet Bambi either to feel guilty, or jealous, or anything negative!! Cause here we are talking of Divine Creation!! Not our creation....Here we are sharing happiness and joys, by trying to feel , to experience, to touch, Mother Nature!

4 Oct '06 3:05 am

With you, dear Bobbie, I feel embarrassed ,and flattered too, cause your post deeply touched my mind and my heart! Cause I was so happy reading your introduction! It was a whole butterfly scene unfolding in front of my eyes! A movement! Sounds! Colours! Lovely! Thank you!

As for the new Butterfly site, I visited already! Very serious information about Butterfly Gardening and Butterfly life!

Welcome in my butterfly garden , dear Bobbie! Even only for two days! I am so grateful! And thank you for for your so tender presence!

7 Oct '06 4:38 pm

My dear friend Liza, thanks for your sweet response to my enquiry though I’m embarrassed with my late reply (I’ve been so busy working on my new online gardening project). This lovely tropical plant was purchased sometime in mid July and grows very well in containers placed in sunny spots, but definitely not in the scorching afternoon sun! I had an earlier plant bought early this year and planted in the ground with full sun and didn’t thrive as well as this one, so I’ve dug it out and planted in a pot in a partially shaded area and it’s finally very happy there, rewarding me with new branches and more flowers! Here’s a link http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/pseudomussaenda_flava.htm to more plant info. And if you’d like to view other varieties, type in the word ‘mussaenda’ in the search box for plant catalog, provided right at the top of this same browser, and be astounded by their beauty! Enjoy!

Dear Jack, I too was captivated by that same pic with its beauty and lovely contrasting colours, and was held spellbound (which I viewed enlarged by not less than 3 times) not as you’ve experienced but more by my own naiveness or is it stupidity? Embarassed

The caption stated butterflies love the asters, so are they the white ones?...as I seek them out...but where are their bodies...beneath those white wings?...doesn’t seem so? After some scrutinizing, I realized they were flower petals like those of my dwarf mussaenda! Laughing

Thanks for leading me to see what you saw, that was a lovely experience as I’ve never seen or touched real white roses before! Rolling Eyes

My dear Bobbie, I can just picture your affection for these garden fence lizards as I do! The one pictured is the third generation of garden lizards in our garden. Currently there are two of them and I’ve noticed that the babies are always left ‘orphaned’, meaning the parent lizard will leave and go away when they’re tiny tots! Poor dears! Crying or Very sad

8 Oct '06 2:09 am

LOL

Do you know that wonderful expression - 'we're all fools, just on different subjects'? However I must admit: despite 3 white roses climbing the pillars supporting the verandahs around my house, and several hundred roses in my garden, I too did not immediately realise what I was seeing! Embarassed

You make me realise again what an amazing place our forum is - flowers and ways of gardening that are foreign to you in the tropics but taken for granted in 'the North' vs. you sharing your tropical and subtropical plants with us. In a way I can bridge the gap because even though I am not knowledgable about them, only 50km from my home there is a tropical paradise where many of the plants familiar to you grow.

I remember coming back from 6 months in Europe studying gardens and arriving back in Johannesburg in late October. The street where my parents lived was a tunnel over a km long with purple jacarandas in full bloom meeting overhead. At three points huge bougainvilleas grew into the trees in shades of magenta, red and burnt orange. After months of some of the world's most famous gardens, the splendour and exuberance of it quite took my breath away - and Johannesburg is a temperate city, not at all sub-tropical. When I go to Tzaneen - my local town - again, I must take my camera and photograph some of the amazing flowering trees one finds there, sourced from all around the frost-free world!

8 Oct '06 4:29 am

Dearest, sweet Liza, please do not feel embarrassed or guilty about my silliness! I know exactly how you feel about these beautiful moments, I only lack the time to express it and hope that all of my friends here at Moosey's understand that if I delay in responding to any post, it is never that I don't want to, just that I can't for whatever reason. I know a lot of you post in the evenings, but unfortunately I don't normally have access to a computer at home (my husband has one, but it belongs to his school, so we both prefer that I don't use it).

Anyway, I don't want you to be embarrassed, Liza - when I read your posts with the love and enthusiasm you express, it always fills me with happiness! Very Happy

Lots of love,
Bambi
x

8 Oct '06 4:34 am

8 Oct '06 3:49 pm

Great pictures, THANKS!!!!!

20 Oct '06 7:17 pm

After that ..butterfly invasion in our garden some days ago, I haven't stopped searching to find out what is the name/s of each butterfly you saw in the photos I sent. And why they were so many during the first two days.

Well. Only a Nature lover friend gave me an acceptable answer : he said, that the butterflies were migrating! That's why they were so many! And that he had heard of a similar incident taking place in Canada.

But concerning the specific colours you saw in the photos, I am still searching their names, and even more, their scientific names. I only know, that this golden one with the tail that looks like the Swallowtails butterflies ' tail, is called a Coma Butterlfly. As for all these reds with the skyblue circles, I am still searching!

And while searching, I discovered another magnificent website for wildflowers AND butterflies:

http://www.prairiefrontier.com

Well, you can find here some golden information about natural life, and a quite scientific one! There is also a true wealth of beautiful photo galleries! Enjoy!

20 Oct '06 9:05 pm

The butterfly search is going on! With success!

So: in my "This time I'm serious" post, page 1, the numbers 001 and 003 is a Large White (:Pieris brassicae) Butterfly. The number 028 is a Red Admiral (:Vanessa atalanta) Butterfly. The numbers 008,012,033 is a Tortoiseshell (:Aglais urticae) Butterfly. And the number 038 -- as I told you before -- is a Comma (Polygonia) Butterfly.

I have to find the identity of two more

15' MINUTES LATER :

Well, I think I found out the idendity of this red beauty with the skyblue circles, that was found in plethora in the garden, especially during the first day, and many more than her cousins : in a photo of Google /Images she is called Peacock (:Inachis io) Butterfly! By the way, you can admire this and many more butterflies in this new link : http://www.flora-photography.co.uk

Now I have to find out the identity of that tiny lovely one (: the no 006)!

30'MINUTES LATER :

Well, I think I reached to the conclusion, that this lovely tiny one is, probably, a Painted Lady (:Vanessa cardui) Butterfly. But , still, I am not convinced 100%.. Any help from butterfly lovers would be mostly appreciated!..

By the way, while I was ...studying, I learned that these same butterflies that visited our garden, visit the UK, too, very often!! Do you think, that it is very possible, that they firstly started migrating from up there?

60' MINUTES LATER :

I was right about the lovely tiny one (not being convinced before) : she is called, Small Copper(:Lycaena plaeas) Butterfly. And I discovered her here: http://www.britishbutterflies.co.uk/2006/home.asp . I think , the best thing to do now, is to write the right, complete name under the photo of each butterfly. Which I will do NOW!

22 Oct '06 3:52 am

Dear Liza, looks like you went on an exciting butterfly hunting trail and reaped rewards from your search! I'm so happy for you that you've found the names of your 'visitors', I can feel your joy in your success. Thanks for sharing those lovely links too, I'll definitely look into greater detail when I have more time! Wink

Butterflies Love the Asters (and other lovely things..)!!

I am SO embarrassed...

Still being embarrassed...

Dwarf Yellow Mussaenda

LOL, Jacqueline!

Wild flowers and butterflies!

Added news to the previous post.