Orange tips, brimstones, peacocks, red admirals and tortoiseshells, and little blue ones ... some small whites this week but not seen any large whites yet ... all together not so many butterflies this week, but we said a couple of weeks ago that we'd already had more butterflies this spring than we'd had in the whole of last year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wonder why that is @Dovefromabove.. Something suits them where you are. I have plants I grow for butterflies but they're late this year. I hope the butterflies are lurking and waiting for the optimum conditions
Orange Tips, Brimstones, Speckled Woods, Holly Blues and possibly the first Green-veined White to ever visit my garden. Was pleased to see a male Brimstone feeding from my Erysimum 'Bowles' Mauve' yesterday, not a plant I've ever seen them on before!
Low numbers here so far. The first large white was out yesterday. There was a painted lady last week. A few small whites and other unidentified whites. The odd peacock, although there's loads just up the road.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Small tortoiseshells, which is pretty normal, and a few small whites, but a bit too early for the admirals and peacocks here. I'd expect them soon though. We don't get the blue ones here unfortunately. Not as many moths as normal either, unless I just haven't seen them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have plants I grow for butterflies but they're late this year. I hope the butterflies are lurking and waiting for the optimum conditions
We don't get the blue ones here unfortunately.
Not as many moths as normal either, unless I just haven't seen them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...