Butterfly hotel in the Food Forest

Who would think that a old wire fence would make a lovely place for caterpillars to transform into magnificent butterflies. Our caterpillar has formed  a perfect J shape just as nature instructed. Now she is ready to start building her Crysalis.

She has a way to go to catch up with her neighbor on floor above her who got a head start.

And by the way, there are many more caterpillars in the garden, some quite large. They find a lot to eat in our food forest. Does a large caterpillar make a large butterfly?

Spring in the Food Forest

Spring is not obvious in Florida, a place where most plants stay green all year round. But many plants are quietly dormant during the winter when there is not much rain and the sun is not high in the sky.  It was a nice surprise to see what has blossomed when I visited the garden on Wednesday, the last Wednesday in March.

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 The mulberry tree is filled with tiny green blossoms, about to become red, ripe and ready to eat. They will go fast when our  Food Forest garden bees discover them. 

There are several fig trees that now have large green leaves. Not sure when the fruit will appear. And the banana tree has another bunch developing, each little banana sprout has a flour at the tip.

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Those are flowers on the tips of the banana!.