{"id":105607,"date":"2019-03-30T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T10:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/want-to-attract-orange-tip-butterflies-planting-honesty-is-the-best-policy-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T11:07:00","slug":"want-to-attract-orange-tip-butterflies-planting-honesty-is-the-best-policy-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/want-to-attract-orange-tip-butterflies-planting-honesty-is-the-best-policy-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to attract orange tip butterflies? Planting honesty is the best policy | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWherever the hardy brassica is sown, the delightful springtime butterfly will followThere are many reasons to grow honesty, Lunaria annua: for the transparent, silvered, papery discs of the seedpod that persist all winter; because it merrily self-seeds, so once established you need do little else than remove the odd seedling in the wrong place; or for the froth of flowers in purple, lilac or white that dance effortlessly between tulips and daffodils.But for all its elegance, the real reason to grow lunaria is to entice its guests to your garden. Where there is honesty, there is always a fluttering of orange-tip butterflies. These are some of the first spring-emerging butterflies in our gardens and they are such a delight \u2013 a welcome sign that the new season has arrived. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Wherever the hardy brassica is sown, the delightful springtime butterfly will followThere are many reasons...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-rtl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107693,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-best-scented-flowers-and-foliage-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":105607,"position":0},"title":"The best scented flowers and foliage | Alys Fowler","date":"June 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The house might have been dark and the fridge half-empty, but these scented plants in my front garden said, \u2018Welcome home\u2019I came home late to a damp road and an empty house. 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