Butterfly Garden by Mike MacDonald

Parsley

[Parsley picture] Parsley and members of the carrot family are host plants for Black Swallowtails. It matures in 80 days and germinates at 10–30° C in 12–28 days. Start outdoors quite early . Both flat and curled varieties were used for green dyes.


Butterfly Plants
Agastache | Aster | Borage | Calendula
Centaurea | Cosmos | Echinacea | Hesperis
Lupine | Marigold | Mexican Sunflower | Parsley
Red Clover | Violet | White Clover | Yarrow

The Butterflies
Black Swallowtail | Cabbage White | Monarch
Mourning Cloak | Red Admiral | Silver Skipper | Silvery Blue
Skipper | Sulphur | Tawny Crescent | Tiger Swallowtail | Vanessa | White Admiral

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