Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Butterfly magnet, 1 by jmorth

jmorth wrote:
lostintexas,
The asters weren't too troublesome; on one, the tomato cage was put over it brfore it grew much, the twine and rebar one took two enclosures as the initial one was too low.
The tall goldenrods have relatively thin stems dispite their height, probably no bigger than half an inch. The tall, thicker stalks in pics are from sunflowers self-seeded from an original Kong variety which is multiflowered and about 10 to 12 feet tall. The sunflowers have been there to provide shade to two Paw Paw trees. The Paw Paws, an understory tree, needed shaded the first two years of their planting.
Both the aster and the goldenrods are wildflowers up here. I got the orginal two asters from a local wildflower club group sale, the goldenrods just showed up one year.
Check out this Monarch caught by the lens in flight.
J