Showing posts with label Water-wise plants that thrive in 100° heat Two species of butterflies working a dense patch of foliage from above on a bridgedeck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water-wise plants that thrive in 100° heat Two species of butterflies working a dense patch of foliage from above on a bridgedeck. Show all posts

Friday, July 21, 2023

Found a good example of water-wise plants and the butterflies that they draw

                                            Yucca Plants with blooms and soon-to-be seed pods
                    There are like an orchid in their blooms and also a very much water-wise plant
A yellow swallowtail butterfly taking minerals from the ground
A yellow swallowtail butterfly taking minerals from the ground.
The Orange Butterflies were all over this dense area that
was about 50 feet down to the tree tops. Without changing a lens, the shot was
made anyway. There are at lease a dozen darting in and out
of this thick dense foliage
 

It All Started in the wee hours of May 28th when 80 MPH winds was tossing everything against the side of my house.

 Those winds were substained for well over 40 minutes. The results were trees everywhere down or large branches broken off. One of my bus ro...