I’m so glad that a few of my Lilacs decided to bloom this year – otherwise I likely wouldn’t have seen this first Swallowtail butterfly flitting around the garden, searching for food, so early in the year. Last summer the garden was full of them – they seemed to love all the zinnias I had planted, and perhaps the parsley as well – I understand they like to lay eggs in parley and I did see caterpillars in the larger clumps.
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I think I’ve been mistaking this as monarch 😐 I’m seeing them a lot more this month! Sadly my Korean lilacs show is done, and it’s been pruned already.
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I think the Monarchs are more orange than yellow, and don’t have the ‘tails’ at the bottom of their wings. …lots of them last year as well!
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I didn’t see much last year, hoping this year is different!
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I noticed the lilac first. It is a French hybrid known as ‘Sensation’.
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Thanks and Yes! That’s it! Now I have to write it down somewhere…
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Beautiful, I wish we had them here.
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