[jambutty]

Originally Posted by West Ender

It looks like you have a real wildlife haven there, Jambutty. Are you getting many butterflies? I ask because I have hardly seen any this year, not even now the buddleia (butterfly bush) has come into flower.

That’s what I’ve tried to do – make a haven for wild life. Fortunately I have a Zulu knopkerry, which is supposed to keep marauding elephants away and prevent them from trampling the foliage. It must work because I have never seen an elephant cross my garden.

With the wet weather there haven’t been many butterflies around but on dry, warm days the rabble of butterflies or if you like the swarm of butterflies all come rolling in. Well just a handful actually. I don’t know the names of any except the cabbage white and the red admiral. I did see two brownish coloured ones in what I assumed was a courting ritual as they flew around each other in a sort of aerial chase.

I’ve had loads of what look like very small hornets, barely half an inch long.