veel......Yes, that's what they are. I've got 4 pots of them. Had them for maybe 15 years now.....:0) I give the little bulbs to anyone who asks......never had them get any bigger than what you see here. The others are begonias. A stem can be rooted in water, they're THAT easy! :0) And they bloom!!!

Gazania, I've been enjoying seeing them in my yard too. They ate the milkweed down to sticks and now are on the butterfly weed. The only time I have seen the chrysalis is when I kept one in a vase. Maybe I posted the chrysalis before (sorry if it's a duplicate).

I sent my brother a postcard similar to the following during our trip to Block Island After I sent it I tried to get a similar picture of my own. So I went to the Mohegan Bluffs that were pictured and went down the staircase there. One problem is that the staircase doesn't go all to way to the beach. The other problem is that the lighthouse isn't visible from that part of the beach. It seemed that it might be visible from further up the beach, and it was a beautiful day, so I started walking When I got to that distant point, the lighthouse was visible, but just barely After the hike and the climb back up the staircase, I went to the lighthouse a short way up the road. In the end I figured out that either: 1) the postcard image was taken from somewhere up on top of one of the cliffs, or 2) it was taken years ago before they moved the lighthouse further away from the cliff edge to keep it from falling in the ocean. or 3) they doctored the image using photoshop Look it even has a sailboat now. :-)

At the "Fiber Farm" on Block Island where they had the too-cute alpacas, they have machines that make various fibers into yarn, they also have a few items made from their fiber, including a jellyfish. and octopus and an alpaca