Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES #108, 1 by Mrs_Ed

Mrs_Ed wrote:
memays, I am a volunteer monitor for the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network. There are a few states that do this. It is a long-term monitoring project. My "route" is in Nachusa Grasslands, a Nature Conservancy property. They have one of the few Regal Fritillary populations east of the Mississippi and my route goes through their breeding grounds (arrow head and birds foot violets).

Here's a monarch on the mexican flame vine. Vit, I lost the small one when I went on vacation and forgot to put an drip jug on it. Anyway, I went to pick up a new one at the greenhouse. Nothing was blooming. It was going to be $6. Then I saw some hanging baskets of it and they were half price, $13. Now I have this huge plant with a few blooms already. Hope i can keep it alive indoors in the winter.