Butterfly Archives

Impact of insecticides on garden butterflies and bumblebees

Large scale impact of pesticides on butterflies and bumblebees in private gardens in France.

French lavender – planting, care and pruning

French lavender is rarer than common lavender. Flowers seem to have tiny wings!

Lilac, planting and care for abundant fragrant blooms

Lilac blooms and shares its fragrance right at the beginning of spring, which makes it one of the most beautiful flower shrubs.

Lavender, a welcoming summer flower

Easy to grow, lavender lets us savor the sun through its fragrance. Swaying at the tip of long scapes, its blue, violet

Caterpillars, organic treatments to control them

Caterpillars are butterfly larvae that come in many different shapes, colors and sizes, but the damage they do is always the same.

Two caterpillars on a nasturtium leaf with pellets of waste.

Cabbage white butterfly, get rid of Pieris brassicae caterpillars!

Cabbage moth (Pieris brassicae) is a large white butterfly species. It uses cabbage leaves as food for caterpillars of the next generation. Wings are white with black spots on them.

Boxwood tree moth, treatments to control treat its caterpillars

The Boxwood tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis, is an insect of the Crambidae family in the Lepidoptera order.

Butterfly bush, fluttering and buzzing all around fabulous flowers

Butterfly bush key facts : Botanical names: Buddleja, Buddleia Common names – Butterfly bush, butterfly tree, summer lilac Family – Scrophulariaceae Type – Shrub Bearing – round Height – 10 to 18 feet (3 to 5 meters), depending on the species Breadth – 6 to 10 feet (2 to 3 meters) Exposure – full sun to part sun Soil – any type […]

Buddleia, easy flowers all summer long for butterflies

Buddleia is a shrub that exhibits beautiful bunches of flowers that butterflies delight in.

Attract butterflies with plants, flowers, and other tips

Attract butterflies to your garden! Threatened because their natural habitat is dwindling, and because of pesticides, butterflies can find refuge in our very own gardens,

Attract butterflies to the garden with plants and flowers

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

Typical of many insects (and even more so for butterflies), adult bollworms won’t cause any damage in the garden or vegetable patch. However, caterpillars and larva that emerge from their eggs can devastate nearby plants.

Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements

Setting up a flowered hedge

Hedges protect us from prying eyes, create intimacy, break the wind and protect our gardens. Flowered hedges boast many advantages and can even become truly ornamental.

Purpletop vervain, the verbena from Argentina

Purpletop vervain grows beautifully in gardens all over the world. Argentinian vervain facts : Botanical name – Verbena bonariensis Common name – Argentinian verbena, Purpletop vervain Family – Verbenaceae Type – perennial, grown either as an annual or a biennial