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

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