I was in the garden this evening when a rather unusual thing happened: one of those non-stop flying machines, otherwise known as a
cabbage white butterfly, stopped to stay overnight on one of my rose blooms. Strangely enough, the rose bloom that it chose is the closest thing that I have to a
cabbage rose, an old fashioned rose better known as the
Provence rose and also
Rosa x centifolia. I'll leave it up to you to visit
Google Images and search for the cabbage white butterfly and cabbage rose. My rose, shown below, is actually a seedling derived from one of my 'Queen Elizabeth' roses, and I tell more about it in my post of September 16, 2015 titled
An "old fashioned" rose.
If we pretend that my rose is a cabbage rose, then this is probably the only place that you will ever see a cabbage white butterfly perched on a cabbage rose --
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| Photo taken: August 14, 2016 |
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| Photo taken: August 14, 2016 |
