I’ve never grown French lavender before. Not really a fan, but when I saw pots on sale at my local supermarket I decided to get a couple of instant colour hits for my ever-expanding garden.

I thought I was going to lose one and cursed myself for getting sucked into buying supermarket plants. I persisted with watering and now it is thriving as are the two smaller English Lavender plants I’d already planted. I should have a go at propagating my old plant — striking cuttings are probably not that hard.

I haven’t shown you a skipper butterfly for a while. Here’s one now …

Thanks for looking.

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Post 26/365

Missed 12

Lavender

The last week or so, I’ve spotted several of these Caper White Butterflies in my yard. They seemed to favour the bottlebrush over the Dusty Miller but it was hard to catch them still for very long.

Like the Jezebel from a few posts ago, this one is plain black-and-white on the upper wings, too.

Thanks for looking.

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On 15th November 2021, I declared I would blog every day for the next 365. Progress?

Posted: 24/365 Missed: 12

50% chance I’ll blog.

Butterflies & Moths

Caper White Butterfly

I found the plastic identification tag for the silvery plant with the purple flowers: centaurea gymnocarpa. The two I have are the Dusty Miller, growing 80 cm high with a spread of 1.2 metres. I reckon the one in my front side garden is larger than that. The one up the back has been flattened by the wind somewhat and is nowhere near as impressive.