Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Need Help Building a Butterfly Education & Exploration Site, 3 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
I've been wondering what to do about this set of Lodge Poles (Tipi Poles) in the first photo. I decided that with some bird netting attached to the poles, it would make a good support for the Maypops Passionflower. Which as you probably know is the host plant for the Gulf Frit. Which I admit is one of my favorite butterflies. I think I will make the outline of the flower bed using the free border edging of the rocks. I was thinking of all kinds of materials to use for the borders, but in the end, my native rock wins. It's free, and I can pick most of it up by myself. Although, DH said he'd bring me in some big rocks to put around the garden beds, or even in them. Remember the photos with lines. A couple of them were of circles? Well I have been thinking about Garden Art, and I put the circles there for something, not plants, that would enhance the Garden experience. You got to have some contrast after all.
The old Lodge Poles will give us some height in the garden too. I will have to do something about these Buffalo Gourds though (photo #2). :-|
I kind of like them, but maybe not there. They grow in several places on the farm, so I don't think there would be any harm in removing that particular plant from the BEES.
Please ignore the scratch on my camera lens. Sometimes it gets into the photos if the light is right. I've got to get that fixed.
Sadly it's really visible in photo #3. Which I'm including because in the background you can see my favorite Elderberry. The drought has not been kind to it. The one by my youngest kid's place is still green. This one fruited, and then died back. It had black fruit too. The one up by the kid's place never has black colored fruit. Just little green berries that kind of taste like grapes. Hmmm. I digress.
I thought you might recognize the background in this photo. It is the area I originally thought I'd use for the BEES. I still intend on using the space. I've just claimed the whole oxbox area now. For a while we'd thought of using part of the area for a kids play area. I've found a better place for that where we can include some picnic tables too. So I have more room for my BEES. I also want to create a space that we can use for weddings. Seldom a week has gone by that someone has not approached me about either having a wedding or renewing vows, or having a Quincinera (I'm not sure of the spelling on that last one), here. I figure I can also use the area for fieldtrips.
Take a look a photo #3. This is the area I propose to use for that wedding site. I like seeing Grandmother Oak in the background. Once I get some arbors up and planted, along with some kind of flooring, I think it'll be a gorgeous wedding venue.
Photo #4 shows the 2nd garden bed, the Star Oak behind the creek, and in the foreground, my sweet Mia.
What do you think of putting a pile of nice big rocks in the circle in photo #5 here?
Still have more to share.
WIB~
SW