However many nectar plants you add to your borders to attract butterflies, there will always be a few that have their own specific requirements. One of these is the brimstone, that sulphur yellow harbinger of spring. Second brood adults are around now (don’t confuse them with clouded yellows!) but this garden has always been a poor place for brimstones, in sharp contrast to the Oxfordshire garden where they were very common. Early on I planted alder buckthorn here, one of their preferred larval food plants, in a little sheltered group near a hedge in the hope that spring females might find them and a colony would get going here, but to date no obvious luck. A beautiful male brimstone in the garden a couple of days ago makes me think it still might happen.
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