A good practice for butterfly and pollinator gardens is to ensure something is blooming from spring to fall. While many annuals keep producing until first frost, it can be tricky to find late-blooming perennials. Thankfully, fall asters are great for attracting pollinators. Asters feature in some of my best butterfly pictures. About asters Asters are ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalIt has been a wet winter here, and I now have more than enough information to identify where the soggy parts of my yard are, and where I need to locate a future rain garden. NOAA is predicting a damp spring for us, as well, so it’s a good opportunity to try to establish some ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalYou won’t find them for sale at garden stores or nurseries, but cowpen daisies, Verbesina encelioides, also known as golden crownbeard, are a favorite flower for fall butterflies and bees. In my yard, asters and cowpen daisies steal the show when summer starts to wind down, and migrating monarchs never fail to find my patches ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalWhile exploring Sequoyah State Park in Oklahoma with friends one weekend, we came across a stand of tall pink flowers covered in butterflies. They enchanted me and I asked to stop. My friends, seeing spectacular wildflowers, dozens of butterflies and bees, and a camera in my hand, happily dumped me on the roadside. They knew ...
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