Hi, Lucy, good to see you back from your holiday with the munchkins in Florida! We missed ya!

I have never seen cats building their coccoons on a house- you must no-vacancy signs on all the available plants and leaves in the area! LOL!
Really lovely photo of that just-emerging butterfly!

It's the heat this time that makes me make not think rofl.
I just realized that I should have wrote : Caterpillar cocoon

you leave and learn right :-)

Brenda it is just beautiful seeing all these Butterflies flying around in the yard. I would always grow their favorite plants just so I lure more butterflies to the yard ...got to get smart on that for next season.

Lucy

I had gotten up the nerve to look at the tarantula pic. Am I disappointed? Not sure! LOL

Beautiful butterfly!

moonie I can find the old picture of the bigger tarantula I posted a while ago if you need to see it lol

Lucy

Oh no, I'll pass this time! LOL

yeah I would not want anybody to run away from here.

Time to go to sleep.

Good night everyone

Lucy

That is so cool. The only cats I have in large numbers in my yard are monarchs and a couple swallowtail varieties. I have lesser amounts of some others. The reason I started growing passiflora vines was to attract the Gulf Fritillary butterflies. I never got the GF's but did grow to love passies, or should that be become obsessed with passies? lol BTW butterfly caterpillars make chrysalises, moth cats make cocoons. Your passion vine should regenerate.

Karyn I love your obsession! They are gorgeous vines!!! I just have to figure out WHERE and WHICH ones I should grow that gives me the least amount of WORK come winter.

Thank you for explaining the difference about the cocoons and chrysalises. I do not really have to correct my subject line AGAIN, do I? lol

It sure is amazing on how many different animals come to your yard with a bigger variety of plants you have to offer. This year I added those cute little birds with a yellow tummy up to the neck. I wish I had time to look things up or catch them on camera.

ok I hear someone calling...Lucy....Lucy come feed us...water us!!

Feeding time for the brugs today. I hope that most of them will recover. After I came home I just had to take off all the leaves that were eaten up by the small green worms. I tell you all, it is not a pretty picture when they can eat and eat and eat without you taking them off.

Lucy

That is a beautiful butterfy! I have rooted cuttings of P caerulea if you want to try it. It should be evergreen in our zones, I remember seeing it green in January.

Pam

Lucy thats so cool!!

Thanks Pam and Daniella. Today I got another great shot :
{{gwi:515920}}From Pictures for GW friends

I believe on the right side the butterfly is just coming out.

THEN I watched a butterfly laying eggs (I guess you would say it like that?) on the EMPTY Passiflora vine. Funny thing is...I have the same kind growing all over the place. Looking healthy lol {{gwi:515921}}From Pictures for GW friends

After it left, there was this little orange looking *dot*
:-)

But it sure is hard to get the other butterflies on camera

Pam thank you for the offer. Do I have something you like in trade?

Lucy

Please email me your address. I love shade plants, but I don't know what you have an abundance of ⺠Got ferns or hostas? I don't really need any new plants right now ⺠I just got a bunch of seeds that I need to get started for fall.

Pam

Pam will do. Now if I HAD shade...enough shade...I would plant shade plants. Right now all I put there are the brugs so they do not burn. They still get enough sun.

Thanks

Lucy

Lucy you shouldn't have any problem leaving caerulea, incense, incarnata or lutea inground year round in your zone and there's probably others that are hardy in your zone. Ask in the passiflora forum. Myles, Randy, Jayme and Eric are quite knowledgable as are some others whose names escape me right now. Here's a link to Myles site. It's a great site for info and some nice pics. Myles even used one of my passie pics and gave me a photo credit : )

Here is a link that might be useful: Passiflora info

Lucy: If it's any comfort mine are in the ground by the side chain link fence and have been coming back every year for 5 years. Mine are wild noids from the backwoods of Arkansas. I dug the roots up from a fence line near where I was born.
I guess we are kindred, (noid hicks from the backwoods). LOL

Very cool Lucy. They laid their eggs on my brick wall last year right behind the passie vine. They ate all my parsley already but haven't messed with the dill that I planted for them. They really like the zinnias. I see them on there every day. I had the most beautiful little bird yesterday. He had a bright bluish purple head A big patch of yellow on his back and a red belly and was really small like the little brown and tan birds I see pecking in the grass in the mornings. He was eating aphids on my rose bush then went to a brug. I want to attract more of these pretty little bug eaters. I thought at first it was a hummingbird then I thought it was someones escaped pet it was so brightly colored like a tiny parrot, lol.

Kristy, that sounds like a painted bunting! They will eat millet seed, but I've only been able to coax them in to feed when they have a family.

Karyn thanks I hope I will have time to go check the passi forum out...one of these days. IF it ever cools down and I do not have to water so much that it just makes me wanna take a nap...again right now lol

You are also right about the vine growing back..I not only saw new growth...I also saw this...when I took a REAL CLOSE look:
{{gwi:515922}}From Pictures for GW friends

Boy the process from egg to butterfly goes really fast!!

Prince Albert that is wonderful. I am still hoping that the neighbor will get a tall fence SOON so the deer do not come into her yard and I could use the chain link fence for VINES...Man I could have so many!!

Kristy you know when you described the colors of the bird, I thought too that it must be someones bird.

Pam you are really GREAT!!! I just got to say, first we have Karyn who rarely misses a name for a plant.
You on the other hand always come up with the names for gritters. THANKS both of you.

Of Course Shawn is the link guy who sends you shopping for Brugs and more lol and on and on.

So all newbies...did you listen? This IS THE PLACE to get it all :-) What ever you need to know...I have always found all answers here :-)

Lucy

That is way beyond cool Lucy ....

Thanks Barb. The new babies did not look so happy this morning. I guess they are starving on the empty plant. So I moved that pot next to another passiflora vine that is yet untouched by them lol

Lucy

Lol, thats what I did last year. I would pick off the cats and put them on something to eat when the vine got bare. I was so sad this evening. A little brown bird got caught in the exhaust fan in the greenhouse. I have to get some screen for both sides. He got sucked in I think. The little colorful one was in the square bed this evening. He is a painted bunting! I tried to get John to show him but he flew away before he got over there. My pomegranates are starting to pop open for some reason. I don't think I'll ever get any edible ones off that darn tree. I know it isn't too much water this year causing them to burst too soon.