Shari's Planthouse

I’ve been so happy to find patches of swanflower (Aristolochia erecta) at a few of the properties we maintain. Today, I found swallowtail butterflies in every stage from egg, to caterpillars big and small to adults, leading me to the swanflower that is their larval host. If you watch where a swallowtail butterfly hovers, they will almost always lead you to a cool native plant