When I was a child, my best friend's grandad had a "butterfly bush" or buddleia in his garden. It was always heaving with red admirals, tortoiseshells, brimstones and the ubiquitous cabbage white butterfly. We have a small buddleia in the hobbit house garden, and today I saw the first butterfly I've seen in the garden the whole month we've been here. It was a cabbage white. All on its own, enjoying the purple blossoms. There are buddleias all over Oxford and none of them have any butterflies on them. What's going on?
There is a different set of flowers blooming in the hobbit house garden from when we arrived a month ago. Gone are the foxgloves, roses and poppies, and in are these purple globe thingies, delicate fuschias, and some marguerite daisies. And the buddleia waiting for its butterflies. I hope it's not in vain.
When I was a child, my best friend's grandad had a "butterfly bush" or buddleia in his garden. It was always heaving with red admirals, tortoiseshells, brimstones and the ubiquitous cabbage white butterfly. We have a small buddleia in the hobbit house garden, and today I saw the first butterfly I've seen in the garden the whole month we've been here. It was a cabbage white. All on its own, enjoying the purple blossoms. There are buddleias all over Oxford and none of them have any butterflies on them. What's going on?
There is a different set of flowers blooming in the hobbit house garden from when we arrived a month ago. Gone are the foxgloves, roses and poppies, and in are these purple globe thingies, delicate fuschias, and some marguerite daisies. And the buddleia waiting for its butterflies. I hope it's not in vain.
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