Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Monarchs News from Journey North, 1 by SusanLouise

SusanLouise wrote:
Mrs_Ed,

We had a dill plant on the patio in a pot. Since last year was our 1st year trying to attract butterflies, we wanted to see how we'd do. I believe we had 11 BST cats we released. We didn't have a nursery...per-say, but as the cats started to "wander" we would place them on the honeysuckle in our patio garden so we wouldn't step on or mow over them in the lawn.
What a pain in the backside that was...LOL
It took several attempts for them each to find their "sweet" spot to go into chrysalis stage. If we do it again this year, we'll get one of those collapse-able containers instead of chasing them everywhere and babysitting them. We'd be having dinner and would have put one on the honeysuckle vine...then after dinner it would be gone and 30' away...almost out of sight...good grief! HAHA!
Here's one of our BST I was holding from last summer...


This message was edited Feb 6, 2009 10:53 PM