Butterfly Garden

For several months, I have been creating sculptural butterfies from galvanized steel flashing. They are painted with exterior housepaint, so they can live indoors or out in your garden. I sell them for $100 plus the cost of shipping and handling. They are living all over the world. You can see them in our Forrest Dweller Sculpture Garden in Fearrington Village, NC. This collection will be featured in the 2019 North Carolina Botanical Garden Sculpture in the Garden Show beginning in September. If you are interesting in learning more about my butterflies, email me at fgreenslade@nc.rr.com or call be at 919-545-9743.

Here is a sampling:

Adonis Blue

American Copper

Atlas Moth

Banded Orangre

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Bue Morpho

California Sister

Black and Orangr

Dead Leaf

Lime Swallowtail

Luna Moth

Monarch

Painted Lady

Purple Admiral

Red Admiral

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Sleepy Orange

Spicebushush Swallowtai

Sulphur

Tiger Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

BeeLeive It Or Not

I had made a series of boxes to serve as native bee nesting boxes. I decorated them with a folk art flower design. Some Mason Bees have taken advantage of them over the last couple of years. Carolina Wrens also liked them.

We noticed some saw dist on our deck and thought that Carpenter Bees were attacking the trim on the house. Then we noticed a bee fluttering around the painted flowers on the boxes.

Here is a cloce up of her on a flower.








Then, we were surprised to see that she had "drilled" a hole through the very center of one of the flowers. She was slithering in and out of the hole. She had made holes in the center of other painted flowers on the boxes.

We have never heard of this phenomenon.

I decided to add branch cuttings to the boxes. I painted similar flowers on the ends to see if the bees might make holes in them.

Stay tuned!