Planting for Pollinators is Important.

Providing Nectar for Energy and Pollen for Protein should maintain a healthy, viable adult insect population able to provide pollination services to plants to enable them to produce seeds.

Doing this is beneficial to the food production that we rely on. Where would we be without strawberries and apples and so many other crops?

But without the plants for the larval stages to thrive we face a dwindling insect population no matter how many plants are provided for pollination.

Growing Cuckoo Flowers for orange-tip butterflies is easy. Take the leaves from the base of a well-established Cuckoo Flower Plant and lay them on wet soil.

Keep it damp, and soon, shoots will grow.

A year later, there will be flowers.

Then, plant them where they will attract orange-tip butterflies.

One other benefit is the plant is a member of the mustard family, so they are edible. A handy winter addition to a sandwich!

The above image shows progress from the leaves to tiny shoots to flowering plant.

The above image shows an orange tip egg, the male butterflies on the cuckoo flower and cuckoo flower growing in amongst daffodils. Daffodils are usually left to die back before being mown. This is important to allow the caterpillars to find a safe place to overwinter. A nearby hedge is ideal.

So plant not just for pollination but also for Eggs.

For Orange Tips it is Easy.