Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES PAGE 6, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Thank you x 4 everybody! Isn't it funny Suzy... great things can grow in small gardens. I don't know what I would do with a meadow. So far it seems easier to be compact. I can just see myself running around a meadow trying to get pics of butterflies, LOL!

I have been prepared to micro-manage most of them because if I don't they can overtake me. I had to crowd out all the weeds that have been back there for so many years. Great incentive for getting up happy with plenty to do every day. I think the layout being lots of rows helps me have more places to put things too.

Yes Becky, It is a lot easier to sneak up on butterflies when you have blind sides here and there. It is not a traditional way to landscape, but my thoughts were not about pleasing people so much as the wildlife. The Joe Pye is beginning to bud out, and I will keep checking for the full blooms. If you make a thread on "Close-ups of Butterfly Plants" (or something like that), I will surely take a bunch of close-ups and post them in there, I was already thinking the same thing.. The overall scans aren't telling enough for me either. LMK if you make a thread, or if you want me to.

:-Deb
Here's what Jee Pye buds looked like on 6-10-07> I will take another pic in a little bit.