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fredarock2.bsky.social
Like icing on a cake!

A beautiful butterfly feeding on buddleias or butterfly bush near my patio this morning. It's my lucky day today so no Monday blues!

#buddleia #butterflybush
#fragrantflowers #pinkishpurple
#mygarden
A swallow tail tiger butterfly on pinkish purple buddleias or butterfly bush tiny florets on a sunny morning in my garden. The grass is brown in the backyard.
July 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
fredarock2.bsky.social
Weekend are for flowers

This hot pink magenta butterfly bush won't quit n keeps blooming till now. I gotta stop deadheadingand leave the seeds for the birds.

#Octoberflowers #buddleias
#butterflybush #magentaflowers
#perennials #autumncolorsn
#gardening
A cone shaped panicle of magenta buddleias or butterflybush flowers with grey green leaves on a sunny day. In my garden.
October 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
fredarock2.bsky.social
Blue sky Tuesday.

Haven't seen a butterfly yet on these
Hot pink / magenta buddleias. So far I have 4 pink buddleias all grown from cuttings. I love the pink ones n growing more cuttings.

#buddleias #pinkflowers
#fragrantflowers #Juneflowers
#floweringshrub #deciduous
#mygarden
A blooming butterfly bush or buddleia in my garden on a sunny daywith clear blue sky. The plant has 2 deep pink cone shaped panicles and one is mostly green and showing just a bit of pink . The branches grow straight up, with bright green leaves .
June 17, 2026 at 12:41 AM
fredarock2.bsky.social
Bee Happy and forget your Monday Blues. Happy bee on butterfly bush. In 2 yrs this has grown to 8ft talk n 6 ft wide. I need to cut it down to just abt around now so it less obstructive.

#latesummerflowers
#butterflybush #buddleias
#beeandflowers #lavenderbluefliwers
#pinkish #mygarden
A fuzzy bee on a cluster of little pinkish buddleias or butterflybush flowers on a sunny day .
September 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
ploddingbirder.bsky.social
One of the Hummingbird Hawkmoths around the garden Buddleias this afternoon.
Hummingbird Hawkmoth nectaring on a White Buddleia
July 23, 2026 at 7:19 PM
hhhopkiiiins.bsky.social
I like big buddleias and I cannot lie.
A big ass buddleia plant with many, many butterflies and bees among its blooms.
July 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
fredarock2.bsky.social
It's a lunch date !

2 swallow tails tiger butterfly lunching on buddleias or butterfly bush flowers in my backyard today. First time I see 2 butterflies together on the plant.

#butterflies #butterflybush
#fragrantflowers #mygarden
2 swallow tails yellow tiger butterflies on purple pink buddleia on a sunny day with clear blue sky. The tall butterfly bush or buddleia is has several clusters of flowers visible n blurry green leaves.
July 7, 2026 at 1:31 AM
fredarock2.bsky.social
Wings of a butterfly.

On a sunny summer day in my backyard garden- a swallow tail butterfly with tattered wings fluttered around a spray of butterfly bush flowers

#swallowtailbutterfly #butterflybush
#pinkflowers #fragranttflowers
#mygarden
A tiger swallow tail butterfly enjoying a spray of buddleias or butterfly bush flowers, on a sunny summer day with clear blue sky. The butterfly wings are tattered but it fluttered around effortlessly
September 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM
fredarock2.bsky.social
Friday's inspiration

Take this broken wings
And learn to fly again
Learn to live so free

Poor butterfly, fortunately it found the butterfly bush in our backyard.
🪻🦋🪻
#swallowtailtigerbutterfly
#butterflybush
#fragrantflowers
#mygarden
A swallow tail tiger butterfly with tattered wings feeding on purple buddleias or butterfly bush florets in my backyard. It's a sunny day with clear blue sky.
July 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
oolong.co.uk
After humans
A lamp post swamped with ivy and surrounded by buddleias.
July 2, 2026 at 11:08 AM
christeague1.bsky.social
Hummingbird Hawk-moth feeding on the Buddleias along the South Finger walkway @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social today.
July 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
niamhie.bsky.social
My back garden masquerading as a forest with smoke and buddleias
#scape happy Friday
#fujifilm
#eastcoastkin
Colour photo of buddleia in foreground trees and smoke
July 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
scifinch.bsky.social
This is me but with buddleias
super-dollworld.bsky.social insane rifties (again, still) @super-dollworld.bsky.social · Oct 3
guy who just really irrationally hates sparrows
October 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
lawrencemoore.bsky.social
For one week, the eBook version of my collection This Joyful Interlude is only 99p / 99¢

Here’s a poem from the book, ‘Below the Buddleias’

Book links

UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
US amazon.com/dp/1068432330
CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330
DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330

#poem #poems #poetry #books

1/2
Below the Buddleias From nowhere, neighbour s garden, two gnomes occurred, grinning and waving together with their bright and bushy beards. Perhaps they failed to appreciate the buddleias at their feet already plotting a path to next year's sunshine, for when next summer arrived, they were good as buried; my brothers, sisters, cousins came and went not mentioning beards, lacking the memory for sensing all waves beneath. Likewise, I am a disappearing gnome. One day, having watched me disperse in smoke from chapel chimney pot, you will scatter my ashes in a field of butterflies, brandishing goodbyes, but when you do, cast a glance below the buddleias and know I am waving too.
February 26, 2026 at 11:27 AM
martinswarren.bsky.social
When I was growing up, seeing a Hummingbird Hawk-moth was an incredibly rare and exciting event, but now I see scores every year. This year I have at least 5 at one time on my Buddleias. An upside of the climate crisis. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @dorsetmoths.bsky.social
August 14, 2026 at 9:40 AM
fredarock2.bsky.social
Thank you and it is I have the magenta plants too.
#butterflybush #magentaflowers
#fragrantflowers #gardening
A spray of magenta buddleias or butterfly bush and the green leaves.
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
unfortunatalie.bsky.social
Isn't it nice how buddleias thrive in railway sidings.
August 10, 2023 at 4:36 PM
porquetantodio.bsky.social
Buddleias y abelias
July 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
duckedydoodah.bsky.social
A gorgeous little bee guy on one of the buddleias in my garden. 😍 #bees #gardening #Sussex #nature #wildlife #Springwatch
A beautifully fluffy black and gold striped bee is sitting on the mound of tiny flowers that make up a buddleia bloom (in this case bright pink ones with white and yellow centres). The bee is in profile so one shiny black eye is visible, along with its antennae and mouth parts. A small cluster of pale coloured pollen can be seen on the bee's right rear leg.
July 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
joemyers2k.bsky.social
Several buddleias in a local nature reserve were alive with Butterflies and a Hummingbird Hawk Moth today. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
lesmears.bsky.social
Hummingbird Hawk-moth a regular visitor now the Buddleias are in flower #moths
July 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
normandiecj.bsky.social
It really has been a lovely week tho lack of rain is playing on my mind a bit... well, rather a lot. 😬

I need to water a couple of new buddleias - they're specific varieties & this is their 1st year - I don't want to lose them thru drought. I'll mulch them well for next year & then it's up to them.
Three peacock butterflies on a spray of pink / purple buddleia flowers.
September 24, 2026 at 7:26 AM
christeague1.bsky.social
Clouded Yellows feeding on Buddleias in Ham Wall RSPB carpark yesterday. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
September 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
cathhodsman.bsky.social
Did u know? Buddleias are great plants to have for pollinators, but if you want a super-charged version & one that's a little bit different, plant Buddleia Globosa. Its cheery orange flower balls will light up your outside space & it'll be literally alive with pollinators. Go plant. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🦋🐝🪲
July 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
slightlydoolally.bsky.social
Butterflies on one of my new buddleias this morning. 🦋😊
August 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM