White wings dance through summer flowers, ethereal and elusive. Whites come early and are everywhere. In the walled kitchen garden brassicae swarm with caterpillars in a trail of frass. Pieris brassicae, the Large White and Pieris rapae, the Small white. Gardeners hope to harvest cabbages for the kitchen, tempting butterflies to choose nasturtiums for their caterpillars' food-plant. Visitors delight in butterflies and unless you grow brassica it's unusual to watch caterpillars munching the leaves so they are something of a novelty.
RSS Feed