After looking at the Wildlife in Kuala Selangor Nature Park, let's admire the flowers offered there.
Above are some 'flying flowers' busy sipping away at the Kuala Selangor Nature Park.
According to Commander from Butterflies of Singapore, who is an expert in butterflies, the first one is called a Blue Glassy Tiger and the second one, a Long Banded Silverline.
According to Commander from Butterflies of Singapore, who is an expert in butterflies, the first one is called a Blue Glassy Tiger and the second one, a Long Banded Silverline.
Most of the wild flowers were white.
Although they were not very showy, the butterflies seem to adore them.
Perhaps these flowers were bursting with untainted, juicy nutrients.
According to Donna of Garden Walk Garden Talk in her latest Garden Magazine, white is a great place to give the eye a rest.
Yellow was as popular as white in this park.
There was even a blanket of yellow flowers on the ground.
But the butterflies must have found white a lot more relaxing.
Do you know that lantana is a weed?
Isn't this the kind of weed we really wouldn't mind growing in the garden?
What are your favourite weeds and wildflowers?
For more blooms, please visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
Beautiful flowers, flying and not. I would really like to have some lantana in my garden.
ReplyDeleteI know that lantana grows like a weed. Beautiful photos of the flying flowers! Their colors are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos, One. I didn't know that Lantana is a weed. Here we spend money to purchase it for our hanging baskets and patio pots. I love to combine it with petunias and greenery. It is a seasonal annual that adds color and texture to our floral design. cheers. ann
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ReplyDeleteLovely pictures - I really enjoy the way your blog gives me a window on plants and creatures that I would never otherwise see.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out. Your butterflies are so pretty. I did not see either of them on my visit to the Conservatory, yet the first one was listed as being there.
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting about them liking the white flowers.I never really took notice and I have much white in the garden. I have white yarrow and nicotiana and it is supposed to attract them, but I have not seen any on it all last year. But they are in the cutting garden and that is really out of my view unless I have some reason to go over to the side of the house. This is a live and let live garden. No water, or anything.
The butterflies and exotic flowers are lovely.I would like to try to attract more butterflies to my garden and must remember that they are partial to white flowers.
ReplyDeleteI have seen lantana or its cousins growing and flowering sweetly by the roadside... weeds, yes. But again, as someone said, today's weed is tomorrow's vegetable that feed the whole world.
ReplyDeleteFer, I would love to have those flying flower and lantana in my garden too.
ReplyDeleteAmy, I'm really impressed with your beautiful garden complete with a very old tree.
Ann, I see lantana used as part of the landscape in front of some office buildings. Weeds can be beautiful.
A Year in the Garden, Yeah! We live in very different climate. I enjoy your photos tremendously too.
Donna, So you have a live and let live section in your garden? That's interesting. I had a section like that but I tore it apart. I didn't know about Gnomes 4 Homes then. They could have solved the issues I was having there.
Jennifer, Oh! Please don't believe all that I say. Do grow the flowers that you love. Even if they don't attract butterflies, they would make your day. It may have been just a mere coincidence that the butterflies that posed for me were hovering around white flowers.
Lovely butterflies on lovely weeds! Great shots One.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite weed so far is Morning Glory! Your butterflies pics are so beautiful, i like butterflies but not the babies haha. Nice shots!
ReplyDeleteThe second butterfly photo look like it can belong to the same category with tiger. When they are abundant sunshine around white flower look more relaxing. On the other hand, on gloomy days yellow gives more attraction. My weeds currently are nasturtiums, gaillardia and viola. They popped out everywhere and thus has become weed in our place.
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ReplyDeleteAt first I thought you were referring to the butterflies as flowers as they are so beautifully marked.
I let linaria seed all over my garden.
Thanks for visiting my other blog - I'm not sure if I will be able to do GBBD as we're still under snow.
Gorgeous photos, as always! The butterflies are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBangchik, You are absolutely right! Anyway words are just words. We tend to label too much.
ReplyDeleteP3Chandan, Planning to see the kelip-kelip?
Milka, I do love the morning glory too. I have one species ate home. It is called the Mt Fuji morning glory.
Naturtiums sound like a very hardy plant but somehow it refuse to be a weed for me.
Rosie, I was referring to the butterflies. I did an image search for linaria. I would let them grow wild in my garden too.
Elaine, Thanks. Your blooms are great!
Beautiful flying flowers! I have lots of the lantana in my garden and the flying flowers love it.
ReplyDeleteThey are flowers if you love them, otherwise they are weed.
ReplyDeleteIt rained heavily in the early morning. I saw The same pinkish white wild flowers at Cerok Tokun. I thought I can captured some pictures of the wet flowers.
They were actually very dry. No raindrops were kept.
No wonder lantana does so well here in our hot, dry, shallow soils! Love your flying flowers One! Happy Bloom Day ;)
ReplyDeleteOne, Inventive idea to include butterflies as blooms. I think lantana is considered a weed in some of our very southern states in the US. Carolyn
ReplyDeleteLovely. I saw a flying flower when I went out with my camera but it wasn't as cooperative about being photographed. I've only ever heard of lantana as a weed here, I was surprised to see that people grow it in their gardens in other parts of the world.
ReplyDeleteHi One! Thanks for posting your comments on my blog. The first shot is of a Blue Glassy Tiger (Ideopsis vulgaris macrina) and the 2nd one looks like a Long Banded Silverline (Spindasis lohita senama)
ReplyDeleteEverything is a weed somewhere! It's funny to imagine lantana as a weed since it doesn't propagate itself where I live. It barely even comes back after the winter months.
ReplyDeleteYour butterflies barely look like any I've seen before -- gorgeous!
Excitement about the summer - this is what I feel looking at your pictures! Wondeerful!
ReplyDeleteYour flying flowers are beautiful! Great captures...I haven't seen the Long banded Silverline before. you're right about the white blooms. They're indeed very soothing.
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ReplyDeletei love your post, its been along time since i've been to kaula sengalor, i love this place!
have a great weekend
Lovely butterflies and a great reminder about weeds/wildflowers ... all in the mind's eye!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind letting lantana flourish in my garden. And the butterflies are beautiful. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos as always. I love the lantana flowers, this is one beautiful weed!
ReplyDeletepretty blooms AND butterflies! I don't think I've ever seen anything like them. Your comment that that the blooms are not showy is funny to me because you photograph them so beautifully, I find them all just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThose white flowers in the 1st 2 photos are very invasive and difficult to control. We have lots of them in our area and if only some base are left on the ground, they start growing prolifically again. I have included this in my weeds post just recently. Lantana, yes is a weed, the wild type. But it has gone through hybridization and domestication that the ones you see in landscapes are already hybrids, but yes the one you photographed is the wild type. We have lots of these too in the province especially in marginal areas. The wild types are somehow viny when old, and their branches thickened above ground leaving some nice space underneath the canopy. When we were kids, we love hiding under it, especially when our mothers are calling us from play, and we just dont want to stop yet. The chicken also love to stay under it during dry months and it is very hot.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful butterflies! Over here Lantana is classed as a noxious weed and we try to eradicate it ... it has devastated the natural environment across the north of our country.
ReplyDeleteYour mosaics are just lovely ... lovely white and yellow blooms.
I have seen Lantana as a weed too! Infact i use to uproot them from my mother's garden when young! They were really weed back then....
ReplyDeleteDid you manage to settle the photo upload problem? you bought the storage ?
Hello One - I captured pictures of the "Blue Glassy Tiger" in my garden before ! It is hard to capture butterflies with a camera. I love watching these butterflies visiting my garden. Can you recommend me a site or reference so I can check up names of our local malaysian butterflies? I managed to take some pictures but to find out their names is even more difficult !
ReplyDeleteDear One, Thank you so much for ur prompt reply...really appreciate it. The site you recommended is really informative...my eyes going "to pain" from all the reading, but I am loving it, thanks again!!
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