My late-flowering buddleia bush is still attracting a few butterflies – mostly Red Admirals.
We’ve reached the time of year when the Swifts have gone, the butterflies are going and if I wake and it’s still dark I cannot be sure whether it is time to get up or not (rather than in the summer when I face the same quandary when I wake and it is light).
I hope I have at least a couple more weeks of butterflies in the garden. Will the buddleia remain in flower that long? We’ll see.
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Mark, if you remove the spent flower heads from your buddleia it should encourage the plant to continue to flower, so you can enjoy a couple more week’s colour (and hopefully butterflies too)!
I didn’t know that Sam. Thanks for a useful tip!
We’ve a stand of white flowering lysimachia which is keeping the butterflies and hoverflies going after our buddleia finished (too difficult to get to it to remove dead flower heads). Peacocks, Sm Tortoiseshells and Red Admirals have been flying from the south/west facing house wall where they get a warm up, off across the garden to the stand of flowers for a feed. Lovely to watch.
Beginning to look a bit like the end of summer now. Rooks and jackdaws heading off to roost in the gloaming.
The geese will be here in the next couple of weeks or so, lovely.
The joy of moths (well, one of the joys of moths) is that it is possible to find something flying in every month of the year. Bit like birds really.