Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 73, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
We came from here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1060453/

Well, the weather outside has been frightful, but there are still some butterflies here in Florida. This is a Monarch I released today. I'm sure glad Mom like pansies so much that I plant them for her every winter. Right now, they're about the only thing blooming.

We got down to 20 degrees here, just north of Tampa. Lots of frost which is really what hurts the plants (and no one owns an ice scraper here so we had to improvise to get the stuff off our windshields). I covered all of my bromeliads, my vegetable garden, and brought the few orchids I have inside. Luckily, there was some milkweed and senna popping up in my bromeliads so they got covered, as well.