Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
I hate to say it, but it hasn’t been a very good year for my butterfly garden so far. The last couple of years I had monarch eggs on my milkweed as it was barely coming up out of the ground. T…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
I’ve got some other flowers blooming now - my yellow coneflower (Echinacea paradoxa) and my purple milkweed! Too bad they weren’t planted next to each other, I think they would look great…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
My monarda, sometimes called bee balm, is blooming now! I don’t have a lot of plants that bloom very early in the spring/summer - but this is one of them.
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
Today I saw a turkey vulture right behind our house, by the creek. It was huge! Didn’t seem too afraid of me either. I was able to get one decent picture of it:
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
I contacted the Fenton Garden Club recently and asked them about joining. They invited me to their next meeting which was scheduled to be at Shaw Nature Reserve, today. So I went and had a great tim…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
We went to the Missouri Botanical Gardens for Chinese Days again this year. I’m not usually at the garden this time of year so there were different things blooming than what I am used to seei…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
I found some baby preying mantis that had just hatched today! I was able to only get a few quick pictures of them before they all started running away. ( you might need to click on the image to see…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
There’s a pond near our house that I stop by sometimes when walking my dog. There are many different birds all around it. Today, I saw some geese - and a nest with eggs in it! Here are the…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
My one Pipevine Swallowtail pupa - from the only Pipevine Swallowtails caterpillars that I’ve ever had - that I took such good care of over the winter - my dog attacked and possibly ate. Kille…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
My wild violets - Viola sororia - are blooming! They are so pretty when blooming in large groups. Unfortunately this year, since I’m behind in getting the garden cleaned up, some of them are c…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
Someone asked about how I keep my pupa over the winter. I used to have an enclosure that I could raise caterpillars in and let them pupate also. It started falling apart and I don’t have a new…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Ideas for Women News Blog
Last year I wrote a series of posts for Earthday that are still just as relevant: Earthday Environmental E’s! Effect - the area around you in a positive way Extend - the use of the items you use and…
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Trisha has posted a new entry on: Butterfly Gardening Blog
I had a couple of Black Swallowtails who I had pupating over the winter emerge today! I think it is a bit early for them in this area though - I don’t know if they will do very well. Its been…
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