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.
Butterfly
Butterflies are bringers of joy. Learn which plants to grow to attract them, and the best practices to protect them. Caterpillars, too!
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.
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.
French lavender – planting, care and pruning
French lavender is rarer than common lavender. Flowers seem to have tiny wings!
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,
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.
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.
Impact of insecticides on garden butterflies and bumblebees
Large scale impact of pesticides on butterflies and bumblebees in private gardens in France.
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
Buddleja care from planting to pruning, prepare a haven for butterflies!
Buddleja is a shrub that offers magnificent bunches of flowers that attract butterflies.
