Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 21, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Yes Melanie..
Let us know how it all goes. Your conversations at the festival sound like many of the ones I have in the marketplace. lol!
Yesterday I was shopping at Target in the bird seed section, and met a young mom looking for what to feed her collard doves. I pointed out the shelled sunflower seeds and peanuts, and happened to mention the butterflies. She was fascinated and wanted to know how I get the butterflies in my garden. I explained that planting their caterpillar host, and how the males come to wait for the females, and how the females deposit their eggs and the cats eat the plants and then morph. etc etc..Then I gave her a packet of MW curassavica. She just lit up!

As we were talking the librarian of our town libarary walked past us. I greeted her and introduced her to the young lady I had been talking to. She had overheard the whole thing. lol. The librarian told me how she had just visited my website the day before looking for what to feed a butterfly she rescued safely unwinding it from a spider web. I was so impressed that she was ale to catch the butterfly in time! Gave her a big high five on that!! "Way to go girl!!"
How fortunate for the butterfly that she knew what to do.. I was very touched.

I hear you Mel, about the folks representing and selling plants who say how invasive they are. Gheese!! We want them to grow like weeds.. The cats can eat so much. Some of these sellers can take us a few steps back to all the strides we make, and it ticks me a bit too! I hear ya!
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Viola,
I think it's so amazing that you get to go digging to save native plants. We are so glad to have you here! I hope you will keep us apprised of what you find out there and how it all goes. I am looking forward to it!

debnes

Still more Monarchs in the works here>