It's been wonderful the past few days and we've been out in the garden loads over the past few weeks (apart from when it was raining too much). We have loads of butterflies in our garden and this is because I am very careful about what is growing in it. We keep our nettles and keep lots of indigenous and/or butterfly-friendly plants in the garden. We grow rosemary, mullein, nettles, foxgloves, lemon balm, dandelions (lots of insect species love these, along with birds such as finches) and buddleia. I also weed by hand rather than using chemicals.
Yesterday I had one of those moments. I was stood in the garden with birds twittering, the sound of my child singing, bees buzzing and the scent of the butterfly bush, complete with peacock and red admiral butterflies probing for pollen, all surrounding me. Totally found the 'now' - ah, beautiful.
If you have a garden then make it butterfly and bee friendly, if you can and if it suits your climate. It's a most wonderful resource for a home educator to go about spotting and identifying butterflies. We made butterfly fridge magnets (used a butterfly stencil - cut out shapes and painted them according to a butterfly wall chart). The scent from most butterfly-friendly plants is incredible - it's a really good to way to help with olfactory (smell) sense integration. Eye tracking by following around butterflies is so natural.
We have lots of bumblebees too (less honeybees this year).
Also, this week has seen the birth of 4 girls to our friends, neighbours or family members.
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