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Husein Ali Zorkot You can make your own fantastic butterfly garden, anywhere at home, on a balcony, patio, hedge, or next to a lawn. You can also modify the ordinary garden you have into an ecofriendly, sustainable butterfly garden. All you need are butterfly plants,...

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Autumn trails and...

  Our garden butterflies as of September 2019, Common swallowtail (Papilio machaon) Clouded yellow (Colias croceus) Salmon caper (Colotis fausta) Caper white (Belenois aurota) Large white (Pieris brassicae) Small white (Pieris rapae) Bath white (Pontia daplidice)...

by Husein Ali Zorkot       Around this time a year ago, I observed for the first time a plain tiger (Danaus chrysippus), also known as the African queen, flying majestically from wildflower to wildflower. This butterfly, the same butterfly depicted on our wonderful...

Now, its autumn time, elecampanes a blooming and butterflies a fluttering. Plant native wildflowers like these elecampanes, they’re hardier, tolerant of temperature, wind, and weather conditions, less likely invasive, and produce lots of nectar. Photograph...