I'm asking for any advice about doing something on purpose that I did a few years ago by accident! I never heard of such a thing, and maybe five or six years ago, I came out on my deck and saw these green and black concertinas on my parsley in the middle of summer -- they were stunning. But I didn't want to lose my parsley, so I gently encouraged them, must have been about eight of them, onto a maple leaf, and then transferred them to hosta out into the garden. I researched them later out of curiosity and found out they were parsley worms. Oops! I saw the kind of butterflies they become, gorgeous, but while my area then had more beautiful butterflies than it deserved, I couldn't see that happening. Never saw another worm. The next spring, this breathtaking butterfly shows up on my deck -- it was that one!! And there were about three at any given time and they hung out all summer. Now that I'm in new digs, I want to put out parsley plants dedicated to them -- I have a couple of deck boxes that lasted longer than their brackets, and I'm thinking if I plant them in parsley and put them out at the perimeter of the property, it will encourage them and leave them in peace. I didn't see one blessed butterfly here when I moved in last summer, so I'm making big changes this spring, but is my plan for the parsley a good one, any recommendations? Thanks!
