Suzy effing homemaker

[moonwise]

Last year at this time, I didn't give a crap about flowers or gardening or landscaping or anything.

This year, I am agonizing over whether to move the astilbe and phlox into deeper shade and then replace them with swamp milkweed as a host plant for monarchs and also some black-eyed susans.

I am also pleased to introduce you to my new friend.



This is Mr. Feets. Mr. Feets is a swallowtail caterpillar whom I found on my parsley plant when I turned it around to find out why it wasn't growing. Turns out that Mr. Feets here was hungry, and we have adopted him and planted him a whole forest of parsley.

As you can see, he has many cute little feeties, and he was last seen chowing down on parsley leaves.

I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine. :D

Comments

[ladyofthesea.livejournal.com]

Aww he's so cute! Make sure to get a pic of him when he becomes a butterfly. :)

[ramothhe.livejournal.com]

FEETS!!!!!

[sache.livejournal.com]

You know, according to the wikipedia, this thing is going to turn into a Hellmoth when it grows up.

Just think of the implications! Keep it as a pet and are you actually keeping some poor person's soul from reaching the afterlife? Can you use it to communicate with the dead? THE QUESTIONS!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Awesome! What a fantastic looking caterpillar. I'm a butterly and moth phile, so I'm always happy to feed such things.

[wynndfae.livejournal.com]

Caterpillars are awesome. There's a bunch of brown ones near my friends' place. I was catching them all Memorial Day weekend.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

S-so cute.