Thank you! I think the lavender I bought a year ago was French. I didn’t trim it back and it never resprouted. So this year I didn’t plant any. I planted some French tarragon in its place and it’s doing fine.
I think next year I will try some lavender, lemon verbena, and maybe lemon thyme over in the meditation garden for fragrance. I want to make it a nice spot to go over and read and think. It has the bones for that kind of spot.
The Monarch caterpillar I rescued has turned into its J formation. My neighbor periodically asks me how it’s going. She said it’s like waiting for a baby to be born. It sort of is! I hope it is a successful pupation.
All 10 of the black swallowtail caterpillars in the herb garden ‘disappeared’. They had eaten all of the leaves on the lovage & were clinging to the stalks when I last saw them. I suspect some bird spotted them & had a feast - they’re not toxic.