The best butterfly gardens are more than sources for nectar. If you want butterflies, you need to create a place where you can grow your own baby butterflies (aka caterpillars) by including native host plants.
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- Growing Butterflies
The best butterfly gardens are more than sources for nectar. If you want butterflies, you need to create a place where you can grow your own baby butterflies (aka caterpillars) by including native host plants. - An easy way to help your local pollinator pals.
Your native plant garden (of any size) can help native pollinators, like birds, butterflies, and bees, by giving them a food source and a place they can live. - In the beginning, there was a caterpillar.
The garden began with a single plant, Northern Spicebush (Lindera benzoin),the host of John’s favorite caterpillar. He purchased a bush from a local native plant nursery and in less than 3 weeks he had spicebush caterpillars to watch right in our yard… - Finding life in a winter garden.
The purpose of a garden in summer feels obvious. Flowers, butterflies, bees, birds… But a garden in winter? Its purpose is not as obvious to passersby. A winter garden must be looked at differently.
“Garden as if life depended on it.”
-Dr. Douglas Tallamy
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