Butterfly Gardening in South Africa

Author: Jill Reid

Number of pages: 100

Year published: 2000

Edition: 1st

Published by: Briza Publications

Softcover

ISBN: 1 875093 21 4

Web site: Briza Publications

The Wildebeest's Review of "Butterfly Gardening in South Africa"

The concept of gardening for butterflies may be strange to many people but, in a way, it is not different from feeding and attracting birds to your garden.

This is a pretty book that is filled with colourful artwork of butterflies, plants and more. The presentation is really different from most other current nature books which use photos and a rigid format. “Butterfly Gardening in South Africa” really looks like it has been put together with love.

Obviously, one needs to provide food for butterflies in your garden if you want to attract these beautiful insects. To do this one needs to include the right plants in one’s garden and quite a lot of the book is dedicated to plants that fulfil this purpose.

The last part of the book is dedicated to the butterflies themselves. Each species is illustrated and something that I think is a nice feature is that the plants that they are on are identified as well. There are accompanying notes for both plants and butterflies.

I think that this is a great publication and is a must for gardeners who are interested in attracting nature into their gardens.

Some of the subjects in this publication

Pentas lanceolata - Page: 36
Sagewood - Page: 37
Wild Cotton - Page: 39
Milkweed - Page: 39
Blue Plumbago - Page: 41
Wild Lobelia - Page: 44
Limonium latifolium - Page: 45
Flame-bordered Charaxes - Page: 46
Club-tailed Charaxes - Page: 46
Forest-king Charaxes - Page: 46
Demon Charaxes - Page: 46
Pearl-spotted Charaxes - Page: 46
Pearl Charaxes - Page: 47
Protea Charaxes - Page: 47
Blue-spotted Charaxes - Page: 47
Foxy Charaxes - Page: 47
White-barred Charaxes - Page: 47
Common Mother-of-Pearl - Page: 48
Dark Blue Pansy - Page: 48
Garden Inspector - Page: 48
Soldier Pansy - Page: 48
Southern Gaudy Commodore - Page: 48
Brush-footed Butterfly - Page: 48
African Leaf Butterfly - Page: 48
African Blue Pansy - Page: 48
Narrow Green-banded Swallowtail - Page: 49
Citrus Swallowtail - Page: 49
Emperor Swallowtail - Page: 49
Large Striped Swordtail - Page: 49
Mocker Swallowtail - Page: 49
White-banded Swallowtail - Page: 49
Shade Swallowtail - Page: 49
Angola White Lady - Page: 49
Dusky Telchinia - Page: 50
African Caper White - Page: 50
Southern Meadow White - Page: 50
Marsh Telchinia - Page: 50
Garden Acraea - Page: 50
Eastern Dotted Border - Page: 50
African Clouded Yellow - Page: 50
Blood-red Acraea - Page: 50
Painted Lady - Page: 51
Pied Piper - Page: 51
Scarlet Tip - Page: 51
Vine-leaf Vagrant - Page: 51
Sulphur Orange Tip - Page: 51
Red Tip - Page: 51
Pirate - Page: 51
Queen Purple Tip - Page: 51
Coast Purple Tip - Page: 51
African Orange Tip - Page: 51
Guineafowl - Page: 52
African Plain Tiger - Page: 52
Bush Beauty - Page: 52
Forest Queen - Page: 52
Common Diadem - Page: 52
Variable Diadem - Page: 52
Gold-banded Forester - Page: 52
Blonde Glider - Page: 52
Table Mountain Beauty - Page: 53
Common Fig-tree Blue - Page: 53
Cape Autumn Widow - Page: 53
Brenton Cupid - Page: 53
Common Zebra Blue - Page: 53
Dark-webbed Ringlet - Page: 53
Midlands Widow - Page: 53
Hutchinson s High-flier - Page: 53
Kranskop - Page: 54
Creeping Foxglove - Page: 55
Dyschoriste depressa - Page: 56
Shade Ehrharta - Page: 57
White Ironwood - Page: 58
Bastard Shepherd s Tree - Page: 59
Shepherd Tree - Page: 59
Large Spur-flower Bush - Page: 60
Snake-climber - Page: 61
Pride-of-De-Kaap - Page: 62
Lighted Matches - Page: 63
Club-tailed Charaxes - Page: 66
Dogwood - Page: 66
Jacket-plum - Page: 66
River Climbing Thorn - Page: 66
Forest-king Charaxes - Page: 66
Pearl-spotted Charaxes - Page: 66
Knob Thorn - Page: 68
Pod Mahogany - Page: 68
Pearl Charaxes - Page: 68
Dune False Currant - Page: 68
Cat-thorn - Page: 68
Protea Charaxes - Page: 68
Tanninbush - Page: 68
Forest-king Charaxes - Page: 68
Flame-bordered Charaxes - Page: 68
Demon Charaxes - Page: 68
Pride-of-De-Kaap - Page: 70
Cape Ash - Page: 70
Flat Crown Albizia - Page: 70
White-barred Charaxes - Page: 70
Foxy Charaxes - Page: 70
Blue-spotted Charaxes - Page: 70
Dark Blue Pansy - Page: 72
Yellow Pansy - Page: 72
Soldier Pansy - Page: 72
Common Mother-of-Pearl - Page: 72
Ruellia cordata - Page: 72
Isoglossa woodii - Page: 72
Dyschoriste depressa - Page: 72
Creeping Foxglove - Page: 72
Garden Inspector - Page: 74
Southern Gaudy Commodore - Page: 74
Wild Penstemon - Page: 74
African Blue Pansy - Page: 74
African Leaf Butterfly - Page: 74
Variegated Plectranthus - Page: 74
Plectranthus esculentus - Page: 74
Snapdragon - Page: 74
Narrow Green-banded Swallowtail - Page: 76
Sneezewood Tree - Page: 76
Mocker Swallowtail - Page: 76
Citrus Swallowtail - Page: 76
White Ironwood - Page: 76
Shade Swallowtail - Page: 76
Horsewood - Page: 76
Emperor Swallowtail - Page: 78
Large Striped Swordtail - Page: 78
Cape Chestnut - Page: 78
Wild Custard Apple - Page: 78
Large Hook-berry - Page: 78
White-banded Swallowtail - Page: 78
Small Knobwood - Page: 78
Angola White Lady - Page: 78
Dusky Telchinia - Page: 80
Garden Acraea - Page: 80
Wild Peach - Page: 80
Marsh Telchinia - Page: 80
African Dog Rose - Page: 80
Persicaria attenuata - Page: 80
Blood-red Acraea - Page: 80
Broad-bordered Acraea - Page: 80
African Caper White - Page: 82
Southern Meadow White - Page: 82
Shepherd Tree - Page: 82
African Clouded Yellow - Page: 82
Eastern Dotted Border - Page: 82
Lepidium capense - Page: 82
Lucerne - Page: 82
Lighted Matches - Page: 82
Scarlet Tip - Page: 84
Sulphur Orange Tip - Page: 84
Red Tip - Page: 84
Bastard Shepherd s Tree - Page: 84
Bush-cherry - Page: 84
Woolly Caper Bush - Page: 84
Grey-leaved Wormbush - Page: 84
Queen Purple Tip - Page: 84
African Orange Tip - Page: 84
Coast Purple Tip - Page: 84
Pied Piper - Page: 86
Autumn-leaf Vagrant - Page: 86
Painted Lady - Page: 86
Vine-leaf Vagrant - Page: 86
Pirate - Page: 86
Woolly Caper Bush - Page: 86
Wild Pelargonium - Page: 86
Dalechampia capensis - Page: 86
Milkweed - Page: 86
Common Diadem - Page: 88
Bush Beauty - Page: 88
African Plain Tiger - Page: 88
Broad-leaved Panicum - Page: 88
Porcupine Root - Page: 88
Wild Cotton - Page: 88
Variable Diadem - Page: 88
Garden Ageratum - Page: 88
Forest Queen - Page: 90
Guineafowl - Page: 90
Forest Peach - Page: 90
Dune Soap-berry - Page: 90
Gold-banded Forester - Page: 90
Blonde Glider - Page: 90
River Litchi - Page: 90
Flame Combretum - Page: 90
Table Mountain Beauty - Page: 92
Cape Autumn Widow - Page: 92
Midlands Widow - Page: 92
Dark-webbed Ringlet - Page: 92
Kikuyu Grass - Page: 92
Shade Ehrharta - Page: 92
Coastal Buffalo Grass - Page: 92
Broom Cluster Fig - Page: 94
Wild Seringa - Page: 94
Pink Blossom Tree - Page: 94
Common Fig-tree Blue - Page: 94
Brenton Cupid - Page: 94
Common Zebra Blue - Page: 94
Hutchinson s High-flier - Page: 94
Indigofera erecta - Page: 94

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