Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 66, 1 by Dogs_N_Petunias

Dogs_N_Petunias wrote:
This little guy couldn't wait for me to get the Lantana put in the ground.

Sheila, there were lots of Tickle Tongue trees in our pasture fence line that I guess the birds had planted. He cut them all down about 2 months ago. BUT... this past weekend he showed me one about 18 inches tall that has come back already. So no more slaughtering Tickle Tongue aka Prickly Ash trees, he says, even in the fence rows. DH feels awful that he has been destroying the BF's habitat and didn't know it. He also has been at war against the milkweed in our pasture for 29 years but it always came back anyway. LOL.

LindaTX8, looking at the pictures, I think there's also Hop Tree in the "jungle" across the road from us.

It is amazing that we could be 60+ years old and so unaware of BFs and their habitat before. Thanks to this group that's going to change on our place. We know it is only a matter of time before the "jungle" across the road will be bulldozed down and subdivided. Hopefully, we will have our BF garden complete before then.

DNP