Nurture Nature: Garden Updates
- Butterflies
The 7th butterfly began emerging, spontaneously and the liquid soup he was part of spilled out onto the pot.
What was happening?
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- The very large #7 that had hung from the side of the pot started to emerge: the legs were visible
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- and then an antenna –or possibly proboscis. But that was all, nothing more by the next morning.
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- I said good-bye to #7 outside and removed him. He was a huge caterpillar and I thought he might have been a female.
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- There were still two pupae on sticks in the pot. Keeping them in the house doesn’t let them accurately sense the weather. But, they were now black and likely dead.
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- The butterfly house is now empty.
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- Because we never know about Black Eastern Swallowtails, I am allowing them to remain outside and let nature take whatever course.
2. Cactus
There is Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus and even Easter cactus; this guy thinks he’s a Halloween cactus.
3. Snails
Sheldon and Swirl try to take the subway.
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- All in a days work …
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- Hey, Sheldon! Hey, Swirl!
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- So what’s new? Got a new bed of lettuce!
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- Dang, train’s late again!
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- Excuse me!
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- Um, excuse me, I just need to …
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- You’re standing on my (one) foot
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- Oof, argh!
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- Whew. Train still too crowded to get on.
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- See you tomorrow.
These are so cool
Oh cool! How do you care for your Christmas cactus? Do I need to do anything special to get it to bloom?