A Late Blooming Garden!

I have been remiss! I just refound all this, but cutting through all that I would like to instead break through, right into the business. Upon seeing the date on last years amazing sunflowers! I realized that this year is a very late summer. We haven't had a single blood or head grow on our sunflower heads. Not yet this year. They are tall, and thirteen of last years sunflowers dropped enough seeds to regrow their beautiful progeny. Very exciting. We weren't as business like about out garden yet this year, but that isn't to say there aren't beautiful flowers growing happily. Just not as many to report on this year. I have however planned on bringing my camera tomorrow and I'll get some good pictures of the growing garden to update it. The speedwell by the way is grand. I'll update everything much better tomorrow, but for today I'll show you what I do have!



Apparently! Parsley (Which I have been inclined to grow this year, on our porch side garden), has produced another of nature's miracles. Mom saw it early this afternoon, going to take out her laundry. She discovered a  large butterfly, zigging and zagging around my plants! As though it had decided, that the huge purple whatever it was, we found to plant this year from Walmart, was a delicious snack. Taking its picture, this is what I discovered!  This lovely butterfly, is a female Black Swallowtail. She is also known as the villainous! Parsley worm. With every intention of making tea from my parsley this year. In hopes of trying out a new herb for cultivation, I have been thwarted. I couldn't very well be cutting fronds of parsley for brewing, when its covered in these!

He is adorable! And apparently the first stage of three that this kind of butterfly go . They go through 1 to 4 stages, and as they pass through them, he starts looking more and more like a monarch caterpillar. I'm planning on documenting him, and his two brothers. They are to be named.... Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. There are however, eggs, so if new arrivals from our lady's egg laying hatch, I will be documenting them as well. These are his expecting brothers! Lets wait and see!!!!