It’s great fun to watch the caterpillars grow and then form their pupae, and even more exciting to watch as they emerge as gorgeous butterflies. And then there’s the joy of having them fluttering about your gardens.

Editor’s Note: Resident Kim Frisbie is a member of the Garden Club of Palm Beach and a transplant from Pennsylvania and Boston with a master’s of science in ornamental horticulture from the Longwood Program at the University of Delaware. She has written for Horticulture Magazine and her gardening column ran in several Philadelphia newspapers for several years. Look for her columns regularly in this space.