The Butterfly Garden

Tī Kōuka: The Cabbage Tree (4 minute read)

Possibly Aotearoa's least loved native tree, but a year-round provider for wildlife

Apr 6

My Big Butterfly Weekend

My 15-minute counts for the Big Butterfly Count 2024

Feb 18

Sharing the love & planting flowers

Day 5: I ❤ Butterflies Week 2024

Feb 15

I ❤ Butterflies (& a freebie)

Some butterfly fun for you this February

Feb 4

Bringing nature home

Jan 12

New Zealand Blues

A little endemic butterfly, only found on the eastern South Island

Dec 8, 2023

Excerpt: Invasive Wasps

A selection from my draft memoir, Spring in the Cottage Garden.

Nov 11, 2023

Basking Butterflies

The x-factor in any butterfly garden

Oct 27, 2023

The Beginning of a Butterfly Bounty

Let's take a look at the plants in my butterfly garden...

Oct 14, 2023

A Fledgling's Favourite Food

The importance of moths, and their caterpillars, to thriving bird populations

Oct 6, 2023

The Mighty Monarch

A brief history of Aotearoa's most iconic butterfly

Aug 25, 2023

The Mysterious Copper

Our little orange butterflies on the edge of extinction

Aug 12, 2023

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