I love July in the garden. The flowers still have fresh blooms, and the butterflies start showing up.
The caterpillars start showing up, too.
This is the first year I’ve planted sunflower seeds. Most of the seedlings were decapitated by critters, probably bunnies. But I’ve got one that made it to bloom.
You know, I used to live in a neighborhood known as ‘Monarch Grove’ because the monarch butterflies swarmed the blue and red gums there, but I never once saw a monarch butterfly caterpillar there.
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