European Gardening: Male Gatekeeper, 0 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Thanks Wallaby1,

It is lovely that you share so many pictures of your butterflies! Very interesting!
The last butterfly you've send I have never seen before, it has such a beautiful subtle colours and combines so well with the flower it is sitting on. Very 'chique' colour combination.

I've never planted dahlia's, because I find their colors usually very chocking. But your dahlia is very subtle and beautiful. What's its name ? Can it tolerate some shade ?

The papilio machaon is actually a butterfly which is on the 'Red List' in Belgium and in the Netherlands what means that it is on the verge of becoming extinct.
This year I had planted some 'Daucus carota' (I suppose 'Milk-parsley' is its English name ?) grown from seeds I had collected in the wild. They are very beautiful in all their stages, the flowers are like lacework.