Butterfly bush

For this date marking that the first half of the year is over, I wanted to show this beautiful and huge bush, as big as a tree. It is a symbol of summer for me, blooming for many weeks. It is a big buffet for many smaller insects, who after nipping there pass over to the borage plants and the zucchini flowers to do their job of fertilizing.
Only very few butterflies come , in these last years, as the winds during the days are so strong that their delicate wings would be shredded. It wasn’t always like that. I remember summer days with mild warm weather and many butterflies.
This bush was salvaged from the side of the road 7 years ago. A baby plant, not higher than 12 inches.
Thank you all for your opinion, even with this minimalistic photographic information. ( I bought some traps with bait)
My photography reminded me of an old joke: a biology student comes into the room for his oral exam and the professor had put a number of different birds (dead, stuffed) on the table but covered them with a big towel so only their feet were visible. Of course the student failed miserably to name the birds and was disappointed about this in his eyes impossible and unfair task . When he left the room, the professor asked: what was your name again?
The student only pulled up the legs of his trousers showing the socks and naked calves and said: “Guess!”.....

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