The Garden Patch
Rethinking Butterfly Gardens
Select both nectar and host plants to attract butterflies and nurture caterpillars in your garden. Plan now and plant your garden this fall.
I hope you are enjoying the butterflies fluttering around your yard this summer. If you don't see too many floating around, it's easy to create a haven for these lovely creatures. You can plan your butterfly-friendly garden now and plant it as the weather cools from early September until late October. This is a great time to start a new garden. I've had great success planting most of my plants in the fall over the years. If you provide nectar plants for butterflies, you're only half way there. Be sure to provide "host" or food plants so a caterpillar can grow and thrive as it sheds its exoskeleton several times before transforming itself into a chrysalis from which the adult butterfly emerges. Butterflies not only pollinate flowering …
Thomas Cornick
7:23 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
North of you near the casinos in CT some are headed south and many just emerged monarchs are fattening up for the trip. If you use spring crops as a guage then spring moves N about 15 miles a day and fall S about the same. more ›