I have lots of those in my zinnias and especially my Mexican Sage in the fall. A few yellow ones and white ones with an occaisional Monarch. Lots of bees and flies. But, not alot of other butterflies that I have been able to distinguish.

Reminds me of a scene a few winters ago at a heated birdbath where a Red-bellied Woodpecker was facing five starlings. When the count got up to eight starlings, the woodpecker quietly slipped away, and the starlings partied! Claire

OK, the plantain lilies in my possession that are genetically predisposed to greater sensitivity to cooler than average temperatures (aka, smart ones) have shown a distinct and verifiable tendency to not prematurely emerge from dormancy.

Yes, and they also need a lot of new branches (ramification). The idea of bonsai is to give the appearance of age in a small size, so that means a thick, tapered trunk and a lot of branches with short internodes. Note that on yours the distance between nodes down low is short, but near the top they are getting long. If planted in the ground it will grow faster, and you can develop more branching and some shape with directional pruning. When you get a long one like the upper left in pic 1, cut back to just above the lower node for a sprout there in spring. You can help thicken the trunk by plating outside but with a dinner plate or tile a few inches under the roots, forcing them to go farther out radially to the sides, and making the base wider.http://www.bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATfieldgrowing.htm