Purple Basil and ‘where are the butterflies this year’? By sculptor on July 20, 2008 in Countryside, Dorset I would expect to see many more butterflies at this time of year. That’s about all we have today! Beneath my younger daughter’s ‘man’ she did when she was 15, is a poor example of purple basil in need of water!
Oh, do water the ailing basil! Maybe that variety isn’t as hardy. I don’t have many butterflies here, but I like to watch the many large, fuzzy bees around the hydrangeas.