A Winged Visitor

Look who I spotted having a feast on my flowering parsley this morning. We have had moths before of course, but this one was staying still enough that I could take his pic.

The pic was taken with my new little camera and I just love how it has turned out.

Why am i letting my parsley flower? So that it will set seeds and I can have more parsley of course.

This little fellow is doing a great job at pollinating the flowers for me.

Parsley Germination

As autum continues, the morning temps are getting cooler. Just 9 degC in the garden this morning. The recent rain has also been welcome, making the ground soft, the weeds easy to remove, and germinating the parsley seeds that I let drop. I just hope the slug doesn't have these babies for dinner before they are big enough for me to use.

Parsley?

Yes, this is one of my flat leaf parsley plants going to seed. I like to leave a few of them seed so that I have a continuous supply of parsley for my cooking. The bees polinate, the seeds form, I scatter them, then the rain will germinate them. Sometimes the heat is so intense that the seedlings burn, or it doesn't rain & I loose a lot of them, but one or two plants is all I really need.