A visit to Bright Street Community Garden uncovers an award-winning, relaxing certified butterfly garden

May sees many flowers disappear from the garden. What nectar is available for our flying friends?

What is happening in the butterfly garden in late autumn? It's all at snail's pace.

A visit to Wellington Botanic Garden yields butterflies galore. All the wildlife comes as a shock.

Flowers become scarcer in April and I notice what is flowering on our Easter travels.

Aucklanders! This ANZAC weekend join in with the City Nature Challenge!

I tag my first monarch and see more tagged monarchs in the garden. Exciting!

I try out the Hawkeye wasp trap and lure starter pack. These traps look very familiar...

What flowers have been feeding butterflies in March?

I use the NoPests pink wasp lure and trap to target the new queens who should be mating now.

Yellow admirals have brought colour and energy at the changing of the season.

With autumn arriving, butterfly lovers have started tagging monarchs and they are appearing in my garden

Results of my Big Butterfly Count surveys and I try to fathom why I have butterflies while many haven't

Late summer flowers for butterflies? The long-flowering perennials just keep going.

California quail might be defined as a ground bird, but these North Shore birds like high places.

Red and yellow admirals find the flower garden, joining monarchs, blues and cabbage whites.

The wild weather has been a curse, but the silver lining has been relief for the butterflies & plants

A return visit to Franklin Farm butterfly house in Waimauku, west Auckland, inspires me.

An update on all the wins and losses recently in the garden: Butterflies, wildlife & plants

I am distracted by three new-to-me cicada species in the warm November weather, meaning the gardening didn't get done.