You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I found the trick was to put swanplants in among other plants and add a lavender or salvia to the mix, I am convinced the scents put the paper wasps off the hunt. But nothing puts the mantises off, those big South African buggers think the monarch caterpillars are ice cream, those things get the stamp treatment whenever I spot them. Their egg cases too. Someone has to fight back...

Putting one in a pot is quite a good idea too when you set seed. Keep it well covered with a bit of curtain netting so no eggs get laid, and it makes a good home indoors for late season fatties that might otherwise not survive the wild.

Must say I love the idea of chrysalises on the netting though, and then opening it up to release a cloud of flutterbyes to the world. What fun that would be...