I spend a lot of time with gardening books and seed catalogues and gardening magazines. I have huge ideas for my garden, but I know I can’t have it all. This is one flower I think I can have 🙂
Pieris rapae or small cabbage butterfly, but apparently you New Zealanders just call it ‘white butterfly’ look for oblong white or cream-colored eggs singly under leaves 😉 And destroy!! (I actually grow nasturtiums which they also like to lay their eggs on which protects any cabbage or kale in the garden).
Beautiful.
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A very tatty looking butterfly there Su. Keep it away from my brassicas – it looks like a Cabbage White!!
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Yeah; it does look a bit ragged. There were loads of them around; but I didn’t see any brassicas.
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… and having said that, I’ve just found out that alyssum is a brassica. 😬
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I didn’t know that, but the flower you have photographed is Verbena bonariensis so that is okay 😀
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😀 You are so much better than google image search Jude; thank you.
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I spend a lot of time with gardening books and seed catalogues and gardening magazines. I have huge ideas for my garden, but I know I can’t have it all. This is one flower I think I can have 🙂
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So no chance of discovering you’re the long-lost relative of and heiress to some Earl with a stately home or two then.
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Great macro shot!
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Gently lovely, Su.
janet
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That poor butterfly. It looks like something has attacked its wings.
Leslie
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It did look a bit ragged, but it was flying around well, and seemed ok.
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Nature can be so resilient.
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It looks more like a moth! And what is the flower?
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Jude thinks a cabbage butterfly. I think the flowers are a kind of alyssum.
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Pieris rapae or small cabbage butterfly, but apparently you New Zealanders just call it ‘white butterfly’ look for oblong white or cream-colored eggs singly under leaves 😉 And destroy!! (I actually grow nasturtiums which they also like to lay their eggs on which protects any cabbage or kale in the garden).
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Thanks for that. Nasturtiums grow wild everywhere here (except our garden strangely); but I’m sure I can find some to plant. 😀
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Well, not the prettiest butterfly, but looks aren’t everything!
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That’s my motto 😀
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What a beauty!
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Gorgeous shot, Su. 😀
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Thank you. An afternoon in the Botanic Gardens is always balm for my soul.
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A capture with so many things to marvel at!
The butterfly is so unusually patterned and coloured – almost like a fading flower.
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I think it’s lovely, but it is a menace for brassica growers.
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I hear you about critters & our plants …. Older Daughter is constantly fighting some bug or other which threaten her rosehip plants.
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That cabbage white butterfly is definitely on its last legs.
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The damaged wings are beautiful in this shot – beauty in decay. Hopefully, we can all be viewed with the love you show us through your lens. ❤
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Thank you Amberly. That is such a lovely thought. 🙂
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