I have my caterpillar container on the computer desk so I can watch them. This caterpillar was munching away without a care in the world until this second caterpillar got into “his” space. Caterpillar number 1 is fit to be tied. He’ll have none of it and attempts to knock the other […]

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I’m so impressed with my red hollyhocks this year. Red flowers usually don’t do well for me but these are just gorgeous. They are a blackish red, almost like that of the Chrysler Imperial rose.
Along my driveway I planted dahlias. But these are not just any dahlias. They were given to […]

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My first 4 Monarch butterflies have hatched and have been released. I still have several green hanging pupae. It seems almost every time I go out to pick some milkweed leaves in my garden it turns out I find some eggs on them. I need the leaves for the caterpillars that are […]

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