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Four seasons of adventure in a Connecticut garden

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Swallowtail larva on dill plant
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Watching In The Cold Spring

June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

Spring shouldn’t be this cold. It’s too cold to get a good start on the garden. Not sure who to blame here – El Niño, Mother Nature, the wildfires, the government… But we are way behind in our garden because the madman feels it’s just too cold to put his warm-loving plants in the ground….

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Swallowtail instar
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The Swallowtail Butterflies Leave the Madman

July 13, 2021July 13, 2021

It’s mid-July and the baby swallowtails have left the nursery plant. Seems they left all at once. At one time, we would have been concerned and blamed the birds – after all, our friend the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) has been known to eat them. But, now, we know it’s just Mother Nature taking her…

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