<p>Then the Garden's cunning guard will pamper you with the pineapple orange marigolds, velvet pink crotons and then the white as sugar geraniums. Then that mysterious day finally arrives when you spot your first caterpillar or a butterfly sipping nectar from any one of these garden angels. You tumble into the butterfly spell and then the necklace made of the marigold, croton, geranium, rose, chrysanthemum is robbed of its jewels, on a day when the butterfly decides to take a holiday!<br /><br />It becomes the saddest of all mornings because all the flowers have lost their gold of grace and the silver of silent solace! Even the sun might decide to weep!<br /><br /></p>.<p>So how do you get back that truant butterfly to your home and heart? You know that butterflies are wooed by the nectar of flowers - blue and purple petals, orange, yellow and red ones too. Plant chrysanthemums, crotons, nasturtiums, petunias, butterfly bushes, roses, geraniums, marigolds, lavender, daisies and dahlias in a sunny corner of your garden. Try to create a big mass of flowers to attract more of these beauties of bliss. Plant plenty of shrubs. Avoid all chemical sprays. Make a sheltered area where butterflies can rest. Keep overripe fruit for them on a flower petal or leaf and watch them come to eat it. <br /><br />The butterfly with its very very short life span reminds me of a single stunning musical note from the great magicians - maybe Ave Maria by Gounod or Beethoven’s 5th symphony. If we could live our lives from minute to minute, how far could magic run from any of us!</p>
<p>Then the Garden's cunning guard will pamper you with the pineapple orange marigolds, velvet pink crotons and then the white as sugar geraniums. Then that mysterious day finally arrives when you spot your first caterpillar or a butterfly sipping nectar from any one of these garden angels. You tumble into the butterfly spell and then the necklace made of the marigold, croton, geranium, rose, chrysanthemum is robbed of its jewels, on a day when the butterfly decides to take a holiday!<br /><br />It becomes the saddest of all mornings because all the flowers have lost their gold of grace and the silver of silent solace! Even the sun might decide to weep!<br /><br /></p>.<p>So how do you get back that truant butterfly to your home and heart? You know that butterflies are wooed by the nectar of flowers - blue and purple petals, orange, yellow and red ones too. Plant chrysanthemums, crotons, nasturtiums, petunias, butterfly bushes, roses, geraniums, marigolds, lavender, daisies and dahlias in a sunny corner of your garden. Try to create a big mass of flowers to attract more of these beauties of bliss. Plant plenty of shrubs. Avoid all chemical sprays. Make a sheltered area where butterflies can rest. Keep overripe fruit for them on a flower petal or leaf and watch them come to eat it. <br /><br />The butterfly with its very very short life span reminds me of a single stunning musical note from the great magicians - maybe Ave Maria by Gounod or Beethoven’s 5th symphony. If we could live our lives from minute to minute, how far could magic run from any of us!</p>
