A Gift For My Girlfriend

This is the gift for my girlfriend’s 20th birthday. I collected these butterflies carefully during my summer holiday in remote Yunnan. Then we ordered a frame and collected some plant material. Last night when the first snow of 2009 was falling outside, we finished the mounting in a classroom. Here it is!

The species are: Euploea mulciber (the smaller blue and black one); Byasa polyeuctes (the black swallowtail); Thauria lathyi (the black and yellow one); Idea leuconoe (the white spotted one)

"Love Flower” Dicentra spectabilis

5/1/2008, Beijing Botanical Garden

5/1/2008, Beijing Botanical Garden

5/31/2008, Mount Wuling

5/1/2008, Beijing Botanical Garden

The Dicentra spectabilis also known as bleeding heart, which is one of my favourite flower species. They are widely distributed in north China and have been cultivated. There’re still two or three months before we can see the flower again. These photos are taken last year.

Too know more about Dicentra spectabilis, Click here or here(Chinese).