Butterflies appear when angels are near.
It never fails there is always a butterfly that emerges on a big day for my daughter. Today we had two.
Nature at its finest.
We had two butterflies emerge today, an orange barred sulphur (81) and a monarch butterfly (639).
We have had a great amount of rain yesterday and today and my garden is looking beautiful!
I had four butterflies emerge this morning in iur butterfly house, 3 monarch butterflies (now totaling 637Â released) and one orange barred sulphur butterfly (now totaling 80 released).
The clouds finally parted, the rain stopped, and three of the four have been released.
This morning I spent quite a few hours in the garden with the company of the orange barred sulphur butterfly.
I have made it to the far section of the garden where my candlestick cassia plant is located, a favorite of the sulphur, with my stone pathway.
She kept fluttering in, flying high and low, close and far away from me. I lost count of how many eggs this sulphur left behind on its host plant.
The plant is already loaded with caterpillars of every instar.
The most frequent visitor of the garden are the sulphur butterflies. It’s truly stunning to see so many bright yellow butterflies fluttering about the garden all at once.
Here’s an orange-barred sulphur on a stunning zinnia.
I love walking out to the butterfly house and seeing new life. Its an instant smile.
The last orange barred sulphur emerged early this morning in the butterfly house.
This butterfly is one of abundance in the garden currently. I always spot multiple ones flying about, laying eggs, or sipping nectar. I have two of its host plants – the bahama cassia and candlestick cassia. They are planted on opposite corners of the garden and are thriving again, as I trimmed them both back. New growth is sprouting, mostly covered in eggs.
