A Garden for the Insects
I have just made a new painting of a wild garden. I have been thinking about the value of wild gardens and unmown roadside verges as they provide such good habitat for insect life and food for birds. Yesterday I spotted a little blue butterfly in our own garden, an unusual visitor especially in the very hot day weather which we are now experiencing. They are common in pasture land where they feed on the wild flowers, but our own lawn is now completely dry and brown. My puarangi or native hibiscus is the only plant thriving in our heat and sandy soil at present.
All images copyright Frances Jill Studd 2015
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